Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting samba package, versions [,2.0.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SAMBA-2370520
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Jul 2001
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jul 2001

CVE-2001-0406  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade samba to version 2.0.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Samba before 2.2.0 allows local attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack using (1) a printer queue query, (2) the more command in smbclient, or (3) the mput command in smbclient.

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