Ubuntu Security Notice 1226-2 - Dan Rosenberg discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly handled changes to the mtab file. A local attacker could use this issue to corrupt the mtab file, possibly leading to a denial of service. Jan Lieskovsky discovered that cifs-utils incorrectly filtered certain strings being added to the mtab file. A local attacker could use this issue to corrupt the mtab file, possibly leading to a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.
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