full-disclosure - Re: Linux Kernel CIFS Vulnerability

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Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 21:31:33 +0530
From: Raj Mathur <raju@...ux-delhi.org>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel CIFS Vulnerability

On Thursday 09 Apr 2009, Andreas Bogk wrote:
> [snip]
> fixing a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability in the
> CIFS protocol.
>
> Neither the Linux kernel team, the CIFS maintainers nor any of the
> commercial Linux distributors bothered to send out an advisory.

The advisory will be out in all the major distributions' kernel upgrade 
notice to this and other security lists.  E.g. (to randomly pick an 
advisory):

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2009-04/0060.html

Regards,

-- Raju
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