Access Restriction Bypass Affecting samba package, versions [3.0.0,3.0.35)[3.2.0,3.2.13)[3.3.0,3.3.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
17.95% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SAMBA-2370528
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Jun 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jun 2009

CVE-2009-1888  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade samba to version 3.0.35, 3.2.13, 3.3.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The acl_group_override function in smbd/posix_acls.c in smbd in Samba 3.0.x before 3.0.35, 3.1.x and 3.2.x before 3.2.13, and 3.3.x before 3.3.6, when dos filemode is enabled, allows remote attackers to modify access control lists for files via vectors related to read access to uninitialized memory.

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