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CVE-2023-32249 (GCVE-0-2023-32249)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-16 13:25 – Updated: 2026-08-15 12:23
VLAI
Title
ksmbd: not allow guest user on multichannel
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: not allow guest user on multichannel This patch return STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED if binding session is guest.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff , < ed76d3a8910be06cd4e4ba63bf6075bf903945a1 (git)
Affected: f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff , < 1f0490586544455e5be698be2e6c30077b4ec461 (git)
Affected: f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff , < 4a98e859c4673013385a54084e0cd865695ca072 (git)
Affected: f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff , < 088131b7b01099720a528a72005ff17868705d40 (git)
Affected: f5a544e3bab78142207e0242d22442db85ba1eff , < 3353ab2df5f68dab7da8d5ebb427a2d265a1f2b2 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.112 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.28 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.15 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.2 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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