CVE-2022-27239

HIGH7.8EPSS 0.05%

cifs-utils - security update

Published: 4/27/2022Modified: 4/28/2026

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.

Affected packages (4)

Alpine/cifs-utilsfrom 0, < 6.15-r0
Debian/cifs-utilsfrom 0, < 2:6.11-3.1+deb11u1
Debian/cifs-utilsfrom 0, < 2:6.7-1+deb9u1
Debian/cifs-utilsfrom 0, < 2:6.8-2+deb10u1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (2)

ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-27239
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-27239