CVE-2011-1585

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/15/8
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697394
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.36
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/15/8
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697394
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2