An issue was discovered in the cantata-mounter D-Bus service in Cantata through 2.3.1. The wrapper script 'mount.cifs.wrapper' uses the shell to forward the arguments to the actual mount.cifs binary. The shell evaluates wildcards (such as in an injected string:/home/../tmp/* string). References: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/06/18/1 Upstream patch: https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata/commit/afc4f8315d3e96574925fb530a7004cc9e6ce3d3
Created cantata tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1595571]
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