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Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 894-1] samba security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
6 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
Jann Horn of Google discovered a time-of-check, time-of-use race condition in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. A malicious client can take advantage of this flaw by exploiting a symlink race to access areas of the server file system not exported under a share definition.
Affected Software
Affected Software
samba on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u12. We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.