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Samba CVE-2010-0787: Symlink attack allows privilege elevation

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Samba CVE-2010-0787: Symlink attack allows privilege elevation

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/02/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/30/2018
Modified
05/09/2018

Description

client/mount.cifs.c in mount.cifs in smbfs in Samba 3.0.22, 3.0.28a, 3.2.3, 3.3.2, 3.4.0, and 3.4.5 allows local users to mount a CIFS share on an arbitrary mountpoint, and gain privileges, via a symlink attack on the mountpoint directory file.

Solution(s)

  • samba-upgrade-3_0_23
  • samba-upgrade-3_0_29
  • samba-upgrade-3_2_4
  • samba-upgrade-3_3_3
  • samba-upgrade-3_4_1
  • samba-upgrade-3_4_6

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