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CVE-2014-2830

Published: 31 March 2015

Stack-based buffer overflow in cifskey.c or cifscreds.c in cifs-utils before 6.4, as used in pam_cifscreds, allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
pam_cifscreds was added in Xenial's 2:6.4-1ubuntu1.1 and
pam_cifscreds was fixed upstream in 6.4

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
cifs-utils
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
lucid Does not exist

precise Ignored
(end of life)
quantal Ignored
(end of life)
saucy Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Not vulnerable
(code not present)
upstream Needs triage

utopic Ignored
(end of life)
vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Not vulnerable
(2:6.4-1ubuntu1.1)
yakkety Not vulnerable

zesty Not vulnerable

Patches:
other: http://bugzillafiles.novell.org/attachment.cgi?id=585460
This vulnerability is mitigated in part by the use of gcc's stack protector in Ubuntu.