Stack-based buffer overflow in cifs-utils - CVE-2014-2830
Published: June 2, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU63955
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2830
CWE-ID: CWE-121
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in cifskey.c or cifscreds.c in cifs-utils. A remote unauthenticated attacker can trigger stack-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
cifs-utils
Gentoo Linux
net-fs/cifs-utils
Gentoo Linux
net-fs/cifs-utils
How to mitigate CVE-2014-2830
Install update from vendor's website.
cifs-utils - update to 6.4
net-fs/cifs-utils - update to 6.4
net-fs/cifs-utils - update to 6.4
External References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0242.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/96
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:114
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13386
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870168
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1086224
- https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2014-July/101132.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-08