CIFSwitch — eine Schwachstelle im CIFS-Subsystem des Linux-Kernels, die es ermöglicht, Root-Rechte zu erlangen.
Details have been revealed and an exploit has been published for the CIFSwitch vulnerability (CVE not yet assigned) in the CIFS kernel module and cifs-utils toolkit, allowing an unprivileged user to gain root privileges on the system. The fix is only available as a patch, which was published on May 16 and merged into the main branch of the Linux kernel on May 19 (corrective kernel releases are not yet available). The vulnerability affects the code, […]
