RHEL 10 : cifs-utils (RHSA-2026:32990)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:32990 advisory. The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely deployed on Microsoft Windows machines. The cifs-utils packages contain tools for...

cifs-utils: local privilege escalation via forged cifs.spnego key description in cifs.upcall

A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a user-controlled environment. A local, low privileged attacker can exploit this by using a crafted requestkey payload to trick the root-own...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: cifs-utils security update

An update for cifs-utils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fr...

kernel: Linux kernel: smb: client: reject userspace cifs.spnego descriptions

A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's CIFS client implementation. This could allow a local attacker to impersonate other users, bypass authentication in SMB mount operations, and potentially gain unauthorized access to network file shares or escalate privileges...

kernel: Linux kernel: smb: client: reject userspace cifs.spnego descriptions

A privilege escalation vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's CIFS client implementation. This could allow a local attacker to impersonate other users, bypass authentication in SMB mount operations, and potentially gain unauthorized access to network file shares or escalate privileges...

cifs-utils bug fix and enhancement update

An update is available for cifs-utils. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability found in Linux 6.1, Linux 6.12

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: fixed a memory leak in cifsconstructtcon When using a multiuser mount with domain= specified and cifscreds, cifssetcifscreds will set @ctx-domainname, so it needs to be freed before leaving cifsconstructtcon. This...

Important: kernel6.18

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: handle attrsetsize errors when truncating files CVE-2025-71289 In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: validate the whole DACL before rewriting it in cifsacl...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: reject userspace cifs.spnego descriptions CVE-2026-46243 Affected Packages: kernel Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.10 Extra. Visit this page to learn more about Amazon...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: reject userspace cifs.spnego descriptions CVE-2026-46243 Affected Packages: kernel Note: This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Kernel-5.15 Extra. Visit this page to learn more about Amazon...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-12505

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fixed a small mempool leak in SMB2negotiate. In some cases of failures dialect mismatches in SMB2negotiate, after the request is sent, the checks would return -EIO. Instead, it should return rc = -EIO and then jump to negex...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.15

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerabilities have been resolved: cifs: A connection leak occurs when the tlink setup fails. If the tlink setup fails and connections are lost, then the refcnt leak occurs due to the cifsd kthread not exiting. Additionally, fscache information is also leaked...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-12505

A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a user-controlled environment. A local, low privileged attacker can exploit this by using a crafted requestkey payload to trick the root-own...

CVE-2026-12505

A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a user-controlled environment. A local, low privileged attacker can exploit this by using a crafted requestkey payload to trick the root-own...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-12505

A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a user-controlled environment. A local, low privileged attacker can exploit this by using a crafted requestkey payload to trick the root-own...

CVE-2026-12505

A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a user-controlled environment. A local, low privileged attacker can exploit this by using a crafted requestkey payload to trick the root-own...

CVE-2026-12505

A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a user-controlled environment. A local, low privileged attacker can exploit this by using a crafted requestkey payload to trick the root-own...

CVE-2026-12505 Cifs-utils: local privilege escalation via forged cifs.spnego key description in cifs.upcall

A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a user-controlled environment. A local, low privileged attacker can exploit this by using a crafted requestkey payload to trick the root-own...

EUVD-2026-37834

A flaw was found in the cifs-utils package where the cifs.upcall helper fails to securely drop its root privileges before looking up user information inside a user-controlled environment. A local, low privileged attacker can exploit this by using a crafted requestkey payload to trick the root-own...