GLSA-201206-29 : mount-cifs: Multiple vulnerabilites

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59702

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201206-29 (mount-cifs: Multiple vulnerabilites)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in mount-cifs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
Impact :

The vulnerabilities allow local users to cause a denial of service (mtab corruption) via a crafted string. Also, local users could mount a CIFS share on an arbitrary mountpoint, and gain privileges via a symlink attack on the mountpoint directory file.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

Gentoo has discontinued support for mount-cifs. We recommend that users unmerge mount-cifs:
# emerge --unmerge 'net-fs/mount-cifs'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201206-29

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59702

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201206-29.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Published: 6/26/2012

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:mount-cifs, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0547, CVE-2010-0787

BID: 37992, 38326

CWE: 20, 59

GLSA: 201206-29