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Alpine Linux: CVE-2022-27239: Out-of-bounds Write

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 27, 2022
Added
Mar 26, 2024
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-cifs-utils
Title
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