MGASA-2022-0170

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    MGASA-2022-0170

    Published: 12 May 2022Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Updated cifs-utils packages fix security vulnerability

    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. (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://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0170.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30360, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/27/5, https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/QMGM2N6RR7GOZR7OP37QJTCTTLTTIWUN/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/QIYZ4L6SLSYJQ446VJAO2VGAESURQNSP/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: cifs-utils

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/cifs-utils?arch=source&distro=mageia-8

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6.11-2.2.mga8

    Affected versions

    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
    MGASA-2022-0170 | CVE-DB