Gentoo: GLSA-201206-29 Normal: Mount-CIFS Privilege Escalation
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June 25, 2012
Multiple vulnerabilities were found in mount-cifs, the worst of which leading to privilege escalation.
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mount-cifs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Resolution
All mount-cifs users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-fs/mount-cifs-3.4.6"
References
[ 1 ] CVE-2010-0547 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0547 [ 2 ] CVE-2010-0787 http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-0787
Availability
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201206-29
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Concerns
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.
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Severity: Normal
Title: mount-cifs: Multiple vulnerabilites
Date: June 25, 2012
Bugs: #308067
ID: 201206-29
Background
mount-cifs is the cifs filesystem mount helper split from Samba.
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Affected Packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-fs/mount-cifs < 3.4.6 >= 3.4.6
Impact
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The vulnerabilities allow local users to cause a denial of service
(mtab corruption) via a crafted string. Also, local users could mount a
CIFS share on an arbitrary mountpoint, and gain privileges via a
symlink attack on the mountpoint directory file.
Workaround
There is no known workaround at this time.
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