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Samba Format String Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Remote file access
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.8
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
14 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
The host has Samba installed and is prone to Security Bypass Vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to uninitialised memory access error in 'smbd' when denying attempts to modify a restricted access control list. This can be exploited to modify the ACL of an already writable file without required permissions.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Samba 3.0.0 before 3.0.35 on Linux. Samba 3.1.x on Linux. Samba 3.2.4 before 3.2.13 on Linux. Samba 3.3.0 before 3.3.6 on Linux.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to version 3.3.6 or later.