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Fedora 33 : cifs-utils (2020-ea0b9caac3)

high Nessus Plugin ID 142842

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New upstream release :

 - fixes CVE-2020-14342 cifs-utils: shell command injection in mount.cifs

 - adds `smb2-quota` tool

 - adds `mount.smb3` as a symlink to `mount.cifs`

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected cifs-utils package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-ea0b9caac3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 142842

File Name: fedora_2020-ea0b9caac3.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2020

Updated: 2/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14342

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:cifs-utils, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:33

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/11/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/9/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14342