CVE-2011-1585

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-1585
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-06-08 13:05:55 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 3.3 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 sp4 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:0812-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE Request: cifs session reuse af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org
404 Not Found af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.osuosl.org Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
697394 – (CVE-2011-1585) CVE-2011-1585 kernel: cifs session reuse af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cifs: clean up cifs_find_smb_ses (try #2) · torvalds/linux@4ff67b7 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MITRE git.kernel.org
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