mount-cifs: Multiple vulnerabilites

mount-cifs: Multiple vulnerabilites Multiple vulnerabilities were found in mount-cifs, the worst of which leading to privilege escalation. mount-cifs June 25, 2012 June 25, 2012: 1 308067 remote 3.4.6 3.4.6

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

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

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All mount-cifs users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-fs/mount-cifs-3.4.6"

CVE-2010-0547 CVE-2010-0787 keytoaster craig