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FreeBSD Security Advisory (FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs.asc)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs.asc
Insight
Insight
smbfs is a network file-system used to access file servers using the SMB/CIFS protocol. chroot(2) is system call designed to limit a process's access to a particular subset of a file-system. smbfs does not properly sanitize paths containing a backslash character in particular the directory name '..\' is interpreted as the parent directory by the SMB/CIFS server, but smbfs handles it in the same manner as any other directory.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade your system to the appropriate stable release or security branch dated after the correction date https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs.asc