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High ALAS2023-2024-530 2 CVEs

Important: cifs-utils security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 15, 2024 · Updated Feb 19, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-29869: A flaw was found in cifs-utils. When verbose logging is enabled, invalid credentials file lines may be dumped to stderr. This may lead to information disclosure in particular conditions when the credentials file given is sensitive and contains = signs. CVE-2022-27239: A stack-based buffer overflow issue was found in pifs-utils. Parsing the mount.cifs ip command-line argument can lead to local attackers gaining root privileges.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 cifs-utils 0:6.15-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cifs-utils-debuginfo 0:6.15-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cifs-utils-debugsource 0:6.15-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cifs-utils-devel 0:6.15-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 cifs-utils-info 0:6.15-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pam_cifscreds 0:6.15-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pam_cifscreds-debuginfo 0:6.15-1.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-27239.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-29869.html