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> USN-8938-1: cifs-utils vulnerability

[SOURCE] Ubuntu Security Notices [DATE: 19/10/2026 13:56] [LANGUAGE: EN]
It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled credentials files used by privileged mount.cifs invocations. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary mount options into a privileged mount, resulting in a privilege escalation.
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