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breach watch Ubuntu security notices October 19, 2026

USN-8938-1: cifs-utils vulnerability

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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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