The setup_cifs_sb function in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly handle DFS referrals, which allows remote CIFS servers to cause a denial of service (system crash) by placing a referral at the root of a share.
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/70945643722ffeac779d2529a348f99567fa5c33
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738291