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Mageia: 2020-0376 High: cifs-utils Shell Injection Issue

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Critical security patch for cifs-utils resolving shell execution vulnerability in Mageia 7. Find more information and corrective actions here.
The mount.cifs utility has a shell injection issue where one can embed shell commands via the username mount option

Summary

The mount.cifs utility has a shell injection issue where one can embed shell commands via the username mount option. Those commands will be run via popen() in the context of the user calling mount (CVE-2020-14342).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27315

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- https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2020-September/007471.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14342

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/cifs-utils-6.9-6.1.mga7

Publication date: 27 Sep 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0376.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-14342

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