National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1585

Overview

The cifs_find_smb_ses function in fs/cifs/connect.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36 does not properly determine the associations between users and sessions, which allows local users to bypass CIFS share authentication by leveraging a mount of a share by a different user.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697394

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697394

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110415 Re: CVE Request: cifs session reuse

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/15/8

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36

Hyperlink:http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36