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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-14342: LinuxCIFS: Shell injection

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-14342: LinuxCIFS: Shell injection

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/09/2020
Created
09/30/2020
Added
09/30/2020
Modified
09/30/2020

Description

It was found that cifs-utils' mount.cifs was invoking a shell when requesting the Samba password, which could be used to inject arbitrary commands. An attacker able to invoke mount.cifs with special permission, such as via sudo rules, could use this flaw to escalate their privileges.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-fs-cifs-utils

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