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Oracle ELSA-2026-32990 cifs-utils Important Local Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2026
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Updated cifs-utils for Oracle 10 addresses a local privilege escalation issue. Immediate action recommended for users.
Oracle Linux released an advisory for updated packages addressing CVE-2026-12505, improving security and resolving a krb5 mount regression in cifs-utils for both x86_64 and aarch64...

Summary

[7.6-2] - resolves: RHEL-192935 - fix krb5 mount regression [7.6-1] - Update to version 7.6 - resolves: RHEL-185756 - CVE-2026-12505 cifs-utils: LPE via cifs.spnego

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Topics Covered

security advisory risk management local privilege escalation important Oracle cifs-utils

SRPMs

http://oss.oracle.com/ol10/SRPMS-updates/cifs-utils-7.6-2.el10_2.src.rpm

x86_64

cifs-utils-7.6-2.el10_2.x86_64.rpm cifs-utils-devel-7.6-2.el10_2.x86_64.rpm pam_cifscreds-7.6-2.el10_2.x86_64.rpm

aarch64

cifs-utils-7.6-2.el10_2.aarch64.rpm cifs-utils-devel-7.6-2.el10_2.aarch64.rpm pam_cifscreds-7.6-2.el10_2.aarch64.rpm

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Related CVEs: CVE-2026-12505

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security advisory risk management local privilege escalation important Oracle cifs-utils

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