Advisories ยป MGASA-2022-0170

Updated cifs-utils packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 12 May 2022
Modification date: 12 May 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2022-27239 , CVE-2022-29869

Description

In cifs-utils through 6.14, a stack-based buffer overflow when parsing the
mount.cifs ip= command-line argument could lead to local attackers gaining
root privileges. (CVE-2022-27239)

cifs-utils through 6.14, with verbose logging, can cause an information
leak when a file contains = (equal sign) characters but is not a valid
credentials file. (CVE-2022-29869)
                

References

SRPMS

8/core