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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-20254): Samba vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2021-20254): Samba vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/29/2021
Created
05/04/2021
Added
04/30/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A flaw was found in samba. The Samba smbd file server must map Windows group identities (SIDs) into unix group ids (gids). The code that performs this had a flaw that could allow it to read data beyond the end of the array in the case where a negative cache entry had been added to the mapping cache. This could cause the calling code to return those values into the process token that stores the group membership for a user. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-samba

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