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Mageia cifs-utils Important Local Escalation CVE-2026-12505 2026-0291

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Calendar Grey July 23, 2026
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The advisory for Mageia addresses a critical local privilege escalation issue in cifs-utils with CVE-2026-12505, ensuring your systems remain secure.
Mageia has released updated packages for versions 10 and 9 to address a local privilege escalation vulnerability involving forged cifs.spnego key descriptions in cifs.upcall (CVE-2...

Summary

Description: The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: cifs.upcall. (CVE-2026-12505)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35813

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8496-1

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489805

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8496-2

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8496-3

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-12505

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical local privilege escalation DoS cifs-utils Mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 10/core/cifs-utils-7.5-1.1.mga10

- 9/core/cifs-utils-7.0-1.2.mga9

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Publication date: 23 Jul 2026
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2026-0291.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2026-12505

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical local privilege escalation DoS cifs-utils Mageia

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