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USN-1226-2: cifs-utils vulnerabilities

4 October 2011

An attacker could trick cifs-utils into corrupting the system mtab file.

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Releases

Packages

  • cifs-utils - Common Internet File System utilities

Details

Dan Rosenberg discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled changes to the
mtab file. A local attacker could use this issue to corrupt the mtab file,
possibly leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1678)

Jan Lieskovsky discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly filtered certain
strings being added to the mtab file. A local attacker could use this issue
to corrupt the mtab file, possibly leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2011-2724)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 11.04
Ubuntu 10.10

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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