Race Condition Affecting samba-dc package, versions <0:4.4.4-13.el7_3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.66% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-SAMBADC-4688051
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed23 Mar 2017

Introduced: 23 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-2619  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 samba-dc to version 0:4.4.4-13.el7_3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2017:1265.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba-dc package and not the samba-dc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Samba before versions 4.6.1, 4.5.7 and 4.4.11 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a symlink race to allow access to areas of the server file system not exported under the share definition.

CVSS Scores

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