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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.831567
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandriva Update for cifs-utils MDVSA-2012:069 (cifs-utils)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the 'cifs-utils'; package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the 'cifs-utils'
package(s) announced via the referenced advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
A vulnerability has been found and corrected in cifs-utils:

A file existence dislosure flaw was found in the way mount.cifs tool
of the Samba SMB/CIFS tools suite performed mount of a Linux CIFS
(Common Internet File System) filesystem. A local user, able to
mount a remote CIFS share / target to a local directory could use
this flaw to confirm (non) existence of a file system object (file,
directory or process descriptor) via error messages generated during
the mount.cifs tool run (CVE-2012-1586).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Affected Software/OS:
cifs-utils on Mandriva Linux 2011.0,
Mandriva Linux 2010.1

Solution:
Please Install the Updated Packages.

CVSS Score:
2.1

CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-1586
SUSE-SU-2012:0575
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00024.html
[oss-security] 20120327 CVE id request: cifs-utils
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/27/1
[oss-security] 20120327 Re: CVE id request: cifs-utils
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/27/6
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665923
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8821
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2012 Greenbone AG

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