Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2011-1585

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.

EPSS: 0.005 (39.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Linux Linux_kernel
Suse Suse_linux_enterprise_server — versions 10
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
secalert@redhat.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)