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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:32:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>, Steve French <sfrench@...ibm.com>,
        Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...ell.com>, coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: cifs session reuse

Please use CVE-2011-1585

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> When one user has mounted a cifs share that requires authentication,
> another user could mount the same share without knowing the
> correct password. The following kernel commits fix that:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=4ff67b720c02c36e54d55b88c2931879b7db1cd2
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fc87a40677bbe0937e2ff0642c7e83c9a4813f3d
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=24e6cf92fde1f140d8eb0bf7cd24c2c78149b6b2
> 
> A way to exploit this would be through mount.cifs if it's
> installed setuid root.
> 
> cu
> Ludwig
> 
> --
> (o_ Ludwig Nussel
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