Re: CVE request: kernel: cifs: cifs_create() NULL pointer dereference

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- "Eugene Teo" <eugeneteo () kernel sg> wrote:

> Reported by Eugene Teo. While creating a file on a server which
> supports 
> Unix extensions such as Samba, if a file being created does not supply
>
> nameidata (i.e. nd is NULL), cifs client can trigger a NULL pointer 
> dereference when calling cifs_posix_open().
>
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs/5782
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/579445

Please use CVE-2010-1148

Thanks.

-- 
    JB