cve/2009/CVE-2009-1336.md

### [CVE-2009-1336](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1336)
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### Description

fs/nfs/client.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23 does not properly initialize a certain structure member that stores the maximum NFS filename length, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via a long filename, related to the encode_lookup function.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-793-1
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html

#### Github
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