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Secunia Security Advisory 11791

Secunia Security Advisory 11791
Posted Jun 10, 2004
Authored by Secunia

A security issue has been discovered in jCIFS, which allows a malicious person to authenticate with an invalid username. The problem is that it is possible to authenticate with any username if the guest account is enabled on a CIFS server.

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Secunia Security Advisory 11791

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TITLE:
jCIFS Arbitrary Username Authentication Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA11791

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/11791/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
jCIFS 0.x

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been discovered in jCIFS, which allows a
malicious person to authenticate with an invalid username.

The problem is that it is possible to authenticate with any username
if the "guest" account is enabled on a CIFS server.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.1 or later.
http://jcifs.samba.org/src/

Disable the "guest" account.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://jcifs.samba.org/

OTHER REFERENCES:
OSVDB:
http://www.osvdb.org/6651

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About:
This Advisory was delivered by Secunia as a free service to help
everybody keeping their systems up to date against the latest
vulnerabilities.

Subscribe:
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http://secunia.com/about_secunia_advisories/


Please Note:
Secunia recommends that you verify all advisories you receive by
clicking the link.
Secunia NEVER sends attached files with advisories.
Secunia does not advise people to install third party patches, only
use those supplied by the vendor.

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