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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-10197: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2020-1424)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-10197: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2020-1424)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/01/2019
Created
09/02/2020
Added
09/01/2020
Modified
09/01/2020

Description

A flaw was found in samba versions 4.9.x up to 4.9.13, samba 4.10.x up to 4.10.8 and samba 4.11.x up to 4.11.0rc3, when certain parameters were set in the samba configuration file. An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to escape the shared directory and access the contents of directories outside the share.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-samba

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