vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3242-2: Samba regression

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Mar 30, 2017
Added
Mar 30, 2017
Modified
Feb 19, 2025

Description


USN-3242-1 fixed a vulnerability in Samba. The upstream fix introduced a regression when Samba is configured to disable following symbolic links.


This update fixes the problem.


Original advisory details:


Jann Horn discovered that Samba incorrectly handled symlinks. An authenticated remote attacker could use this issue to access files on the server outside of the exported directories.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-samba
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