Information disclosure - CVE-2012-1586

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

mount.cifs in cifs-utils 2.6 allows local users to determine the existence of arbitrary files or directories via the file path in the second argument, which reveals their existence in an error message.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2012-1586

Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes

• Exploit #3716 - mount.cifs - chdir() Arbitrary Root File Identification (August 4, 2020)

External References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665923
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00024.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/27/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/27/6
• https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8821

Related Security Bulletins

• Information disclosure in cifs-utils (Alpine package)
• SUSE Linux update for Samba