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Mageia 8 MGASA-2022-0170 Critical: cifs-utils Buffer Overflow Exploit

mageia
Calendar Grey May 12, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Recent updates to the cifs-utils package address a security vulnerability in Mageia, which could allow local attackers to achieve elevated privileges and potentially gain root access.
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

Summary

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

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30360

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/27/5

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- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/QIYZ4L6SLSYJQ446VJAO2VGAESURQNSP/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-27239

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29869

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical threat local access cifs-utils mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/cifs-utils-6.11-2.2.mga8

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Publication date: 12 May 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0170.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2022-27239, CVE-2022-29869

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical threat local access cifs-utils mageia

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