Samba CVE-2001-0406: Arbitrary files can be overwritten via a symlink attack
2
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
07/02/2001
07/25/2018
04/30/2018
05/04/2018
Description
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.
Solution(s)
- samba-upgrade-2_2_0
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