vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-27239: cifs-utils: stack-based buffer overflow mount.cifs may lead to local privilege escalation to root

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 27, 2022
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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