ALAS-2023-1698

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-27239  

A stack-based buffer overflow issue was found in pifs-utils. Parsing the mount.cifs ip command-line argument can lead to local attackers gaining root privileges. (CVE-2022-27239)

ALAS-2023-1698


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1698
Advisory Release Date: 2023-03-02 20:22 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-03-07 01:56 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A stack-based buffer overflow issue was found in pifs-utils. Parsing the mount.cifs ip command-line argument can lead to local attackers gaining root privileges. (CVE-2022-27239)


Affected Packages:

cifs-utils


Issue Correction:
Run yum update cifs-utils to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    cifs-utils-debuginfo-6.2-7.7.amzn1.i686
    cifs-utils-devel-6.2-7.7.amzn1.i686
    cifs-utils-6.2-7.7.amzn1.i686

src:
    cifs-utils-6.2-7.7.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    cifs-utils-6.2-7.7.amzn1.x86_64
    cifs-utils-debuginfo-6.2-7.7.amzn1.x86_64
    cifs-utils-devel-6.2-7.7.amzn1.x86_64