CVE-2022-27239

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    CVE-2022-27239

    Published: 27 Apr 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://wiki.robotz.com/index.php/Linux_CIFS_Utils_and_Samba, https://github.com/piastry/cifs-utils/pull/7/commits/955fb147e97a6a74e1aaa65766de91e2c1479765, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/27xxx/CVE-2022-27239.json, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5WBOLMANBYJILXQKRRK7OCR774PXJAYY/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HXKZLJYJJEC3TIBFLXUORRMZUKG5W676/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QIYZ4L6SLSYJQ446VJAO2VGAESURQNSP/, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-27239, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-05, https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5157, https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15025, https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1197216, https://github.com/piastry/cifs-utils/pull/7, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00020.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8c06dce7d596e478c20bc54bdcec87ad97f80a1b

    Affected versions

    cifs-utils-6.13

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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