CIFS Share Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2011-1585 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

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.

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