A vulnerability has been identified in Linux Kernel, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in the ASN.1 decoder of the CIFS filesytem [fs/cifs/asn1.c] and the Basic SNMP Application Layer Gateway [net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c] modules when processing specially crafted BER data, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected system or execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges via malicious BER packets.
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Wei Wang (McAfee Avert Labs).
ChangeLog
2008-06-09 : Initial release
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