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Rocky Linux cifs-utils Important RLSA-2026-39575 Local Privilege Escalation
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July 23, 2026
An important update for cifs-utils on Rocky Linux 8 addresses security vulnerabilities, including a local privilege escalation issue, while also providing bug fixes and enhancement...
Summary
An update is available for cifs-utils. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list
RPMs
cifs-utils-0:7.0-5.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
cifs-utils-0:7.0-5.el8_10.src.rpm
cifs-utils-0:7.0-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
cifs-utils-debuginfo-0:7.0-5.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
cifs-utils-debuginfo-0:7.0-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
cifs-utils-debugsource-0:7.0-5.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
cifs-utils-debugsource-0:7.0-5.el8_10.i686.rpm
cifs-utils-debugsource-0:7.0-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
cifs-utils-devel-0:7.0-5.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
cifs-utils-devel-0:7.0-5.el8_10.i686.rpm
cifs-utils-devel-0:7.0-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
pam_cifscreds-0:7.0-5.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
pam_cifscreds-0:7.0-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
pam_cifscreds-debuginfo-0:7.0-5.el8_10.aarch64.rpm
pam_cifscreds-debuginfo-0:7.0-5.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
References
No references
CVES
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2026-12505
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Name: RLSA-2026:39575
Affected Products: Rocky Linux 8
Fixes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489805
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