CVE-2023-53246: NULL Pointer Dereference

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix DFS traversal oops without CONFIGCIFSDFSUPCALL When compiled with CONFIGCIFSDFSUPCALL disabled, cifsdfsdautomount is NULL. cifs.ko logic for mapping CIFSFATTRDFSREFERRAL attributes to SAUTOMOUNT and corresponding dentry...

CVE-2010-2524

The DNS resolution functionality in the CIFS implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35, when CONFIGCIFSDFSUPCALL is enabled, relies on a user's keyring for the dnsresolver upcall in the cifs.upcall userspace helper, which allows local users to spoof the results of DNS queries and perform...