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USN-5459-1: cifs-utils vulnerabilities Aurélien Aptel discovered that cifs-utils invoked a shell when requesting a password. In certain environments, a local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-14342) It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly used host credentials when mounting a krb5 CIFS file system from within a container. An attacker inside a container could possibly use this issue to obtain access to sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-20208) It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled certain command-line arguments. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain root privileges. (CVE-2022-27239) It was discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled verbose logging. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2022-29869) Source: USN-5459-1: cifs-utils vulnerabilities

USN-5458-1: Vim vulnerabilities It was discovered that Vim was incorrectly handling virtual column position operations, which could result in an out-of-bounds read. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2021-4193) It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing bounds checks when updating windows present on a screen, which could result in a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-0213) It was discovered that Vim was incorrectly handling window exchanging operations when in Visual mode, which could result in an out-of-bounds read. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2022-0319) It was discovered that Vim was incorrectly handling recursion when parsing conditional expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute [ more… ]