cifswitch-check

cifswitch-check A shell script to check whether a Linux system is exposed to CIFSwitch CVE-2026-46243 — a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel's CIFS/SMB client that has been present since 2007. Runs on bare-metal hosts, VMs, and inside containers. Designed to drop straigh...

CVE-2026-46243

🚨 CVE-2026-46243 - CIFSwitch Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation LPE Local Privilege Escalation vulnerability affecting the Linux Kernel CIFS/SMB client. 📖 Overview CVE-2026-46243 is a Local Privilege Escalation LPE vulnerability within the Linux Kernel's CIFS/SMB client. Improper validation ...

CIFSwitch-Checker-CVE-2026-46243

CIFSwitch Checker - CVE-2026-46243 Checker for Linux to identify configurations potentially vulnerable to the CIFSwitch vulnerability CVE-2026-46243. It does not exploit the vulnerability or modify the system. The main goal is to help identify potentially affected systems and validate mitigations...

CVE-2026-89630 smb: client: restore the data_offset bound in is_valid_oplock_break()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: restore the dataoffset bound in isvalidoplockbreak Commit 83bfbd0bb902 "cifs: Remove the RFC1002 header from smbhdr" changed the quantity this bound is measured against. It used to be srv-totalread minus the 4-byte...

PT-2026-72498

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fix overflow in passthrough ioctl bounds check smb2 ioctl query info validates the PASSTHRU FSCTL response payload before copying it to userspace. The payload offset and length both come from 32-bit fields. The bound...

SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 : Security update for the Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2026:1041-1 advisory. The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP6 kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs...

Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP7 RT kernel was updated to receive various security bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: CVE-2023-53817: crypto: lib/mpi - avoid null pointer deref in mpicmpui bsc1254992. CVE-2025-39748: bpf: Forget ranges when refining tnum after JSET bsc1249587...

Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 25 for SLE 15 SP4)

This update for the Linux Kernel 5.14.21-15040024116 fixes several issues. The following security issues were fixed: CVE-2024-50264: vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk-trans bsc1233712. CVE-2022-48956: ipv6: avoid use-after-free in ip6fragment bsc1232637...

Cannot restore to the backup repository host when storage VSP is enabled

Article Applicability Starting in Veeam Backup & Replication 12.1, this error will no longer occur due to internal coding changes. Challenge A Hyper-V Instant Recovery or SureBackup Job fails with the error message: Cannot restore to the backup repository host when storage VSP is enabled. Cause T...

Samba Server Detection

The remote host is running Samba, a CIFS/SMB server for Linux and Unix. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid25240; scriptversion"1.15"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate", value:"2022/10/12"; scriptnameenglish:"Samba Server Detection";...

CVE-2002-1955: Undefined Security Weakness

Iomega NAS A300U uses cleartext LANMAN authentication when mounting CIFS/SMB drives, which allows remote attackers to perform a man-in-the-middle attack...