mount-cifs: Multiple vulnerabilites — GLSA 201206-29

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in mount-cifs, the worst of which leading to privilege escalation.

Affected packages

Background

mount-cifs is the cifs filesystem mount helper split from Samba.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mount-cifs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

The vulnerabilities allow local users to cause a denial of service (mtab corruption) via a crafted string. Also, local users could mount a CIFS share on an arbitrary mountpoint, and gain privileges via a symlink attack on the mountpoint directory file.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

 # emerge --unmerge "net-fs/mount-cifs"
 

References

• CVE-2010-0547
• CVE-2010-0787

Release date
June 25, 2012

Latest revision
February 02, 2014: 2

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

Bugzilla entries

• 308067