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Windows can create\nadditional authenticated sessions on an existing connection, so deleting\nthe older session invalidates its tree connects and makes mapped drives\nfail with STATUS_NETWORK_NAME_DELETED.\n\nThe session expiration rules require the server to change a valid session\nto expired only after its credential expiration time passes. A valid or\nexpired session otherwise keeps its connection from being scavenged.\nConnections that have not negotiated a dialect, have no sessions, or have\nonly InProgress sessions are disconnected after an implementation-specific\ntimeout. Use the Windows-compatible 45 second value and run the expiration\ncheck periodically for both TCP and SMB Direct.\n\nKeep zero as an infinite credential expiration time, and count each\nValid-to-Expired transition. Set expired sessions to InProgress when they\nreauthenticate. If authentication fails, remove the session from the\nglobal and per-connection tables immediately, including SMB3 multichannel\nconnections.\n\nRetain protection against abandoned SessionId-zero exchanges by allowing\nonly one InProgress authentication per connection. Additional exchanges\nfail with STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES, and stale InProgress sessions are\nreaped after the same 45 second setup timeout. 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the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nksmbd: follow SMB2 session expiration semantics\n\nksmbd_session_register() destroys valid sessions after ten seconds of\ninactivity whenever a client starts another SessionSetup exchange. 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This\nconfuses Session.IdleTime with Session.ExpirationTime. Windows can create\nadditional authenticated sessions on an existing connection, so deleting\nthe older session invalidates its tree connects and makes mapped drives\nfail with STATUS_NETWORK_NAME_DELETED.\n\nThe session expiration rules require the server to change a valid session\nto expired only after its credential expiration time passes. A valid or\nexpired session otherwise keeps its connection from being scavenged.\nConnections that have not negotiated a dialect, have no sessions, or have\nonly InProgress sessions are disconnected after an implementation-specific\ntimeout. Use the Windows-compatible 45 second value and run the expiration\ncheck periodically for both TCP and SMB Direct.\n\nKeep zero as an infinite credential expiration time, and count each\nValid-to-Expired transition. Set expired sessions to InProgress when they\nreauthenticate. If authentication fails, remove the session from the\nglobal and per-connection tables immediately, including SMB3 multichannel\nconnections.\n\nRetain protection against abandoned SessionId-zero exchanges by allowing\nonly one InProgress authentication per connection. Additional exchanges\nfail with STATUS_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES, and stale InProgress sessions are\nreaped after the same 45 second setup timeout. This bounds the original\nunauthenticated memory-exhaustion path without evicting established\nsessions.","Type":"Description","Title":"ksmbd: follow SMB2 session expiration semantics"}]}}}