The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2012-0902 advisory.

    [4.8.1-10]
    - mount.cifs: don't allow unprivileged users to mount onto dirs they can't chdir into (bz 812782)

    [4.8.1-9]
    - cifs.upcall: use krb5_sname_to_principal to construct principal name (bz 805490)

    [4.8.1-8]
    - mount.cifs: add backupuid=/backupgid= mount options (bz 806337)

    [4.8.1-7]
    - RFE: Improve selection of SPNs with cifs.upcall (bz 748757)
    - mount.cifs does not use KRB5_CONFIG (bz 748756)     [creates additional entries in /etc/mtab (bz 770004)]
    - mount.cifs does not honor the uid/gid=username option, only the uid/gid=# option (bz 796463)

    [4.8.1-6]
    - undocumented mount.cifs options (bz 769923)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Oracle Linux 6 : cifs-utils (ELSA-2012-0902)

low Nessus Plugin ID 68560

Version 1.10