Summary
Aurélien Aptel discovered that cifs-utils invoked a shell when requesting a
password. In certain environments, a local attacker could possibly use this
issue to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-14342)
It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly used host credentials when
mounting a krb5 CIFS file system from within a container. An attacker
inside a container could possibly use this issue to obtain access to
sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu
20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-20208)
It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled certain command-line
arguments. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain root
privileges. (CVE-2022-27239)
It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled verbose logging. A
local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive
information. (CVE-2022-29869)
Fixed packages 3
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS | cifs-utils | 2:6.8-1ubuntu1.2 |
| Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS | cifs-utils | 2:6.9-1ubuntu0.2 |
| Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS | cifs-utils | 2:6.14-1ubuntu0.1 |
Vulnerabilities 4
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Medium 4.4
It was found that cifs-utils' mount.cifs was invoking a shell when requesting the Samba password, which could be used t…
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Unscored —
A flaw was found in cifs-utils in versions before 6.13. A user when mounting a krb5 CIFS file system from within a cont…
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Unscored —
In cifs-utils through 6.14, a stack-based buffer overflow when parsing the mount.cifs ip= command-line argument could l…
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Unscored —
cifs-utils through 6.14, with verbose logging, can cause an information leak when a file contains = (equal sign) charac…