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Samba CVE-2001-1162: Remote attackers can overwrite certain files

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Samba CVE-2001-1162: Remote attackers can overwrite certain files

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/23/2001
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/30/2018
Modified
05/04/2018

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the %m macro in the smb.conf configuration file in Samba before 2.2.0a allows remote attackers to overwrite certain files via a .. in a NETBIOS name, which is used as the name for a .log file.

Solution(s)

  • samba-upgrade-2_0_10
  • samba-upgrade-2_2_0a

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