Bug 2081221 (CVE-2022-29869)

Summary: CVE-2022-29869 cifs-utils: crafted input may cause an information leak
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marian Rehak <mrehak>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: abokovoy, jlayton, lsahlber, luk.claes, ronniesahlberg, sprabhu, ssorce
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A flaw was found in cifs-utils. When verbose logging is enabled, invalid credentials file lines may be dumped to stderr. This may lead to information disclosure in particular conditions when the credentials file given is sensitive and contains '=' signs.
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Bug Depends On: 2082334, 2082335    
Bug Blocks: 2081222    

Description Marian Rehak 2022-05-03 06:21:27 UTC
With verbose logging, can cause an information leak when a file contains = (equal sign) characters but is not a valid credentials file.

Reference:

https://github.com/piastry/cifs-utils/pull/7
https://github.com/piastry/cifs-utils/commit/8acc963a2e7e9d63fe1f2e7f73f5a03f83d9c379