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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900685
Category:Remote file access
Title:Samba Format String Vulnerability
Summary:The host has Samba installed and is prone to Security Bypass; Vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
The host has Samba installed and is prone to Security Bypass
Vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
The flaw is due to uninitialised memory access error in 'smbd' when denying
attempts to modify a restricted access control list. This can be exploited
to modify the ACL of an already writable file without required permissions.

Vulnerability Impact:
When dos filemode is set to yes in the smb.conf, attackers can exploit this
issue to bypass certain security restrictions and compromise a user's system.

Affected Software/OS:
Samba 3.0.0 before 3.0.35 on Linux.

Samba 3.1.x on Linux.

Samba 3.2.4 before 3.2.13 on Linux.

Samba 3.3.0 before 3.3.6 on Linux.

Solution:
Upgrade to version 3.3.6 or later.

CVSS Score:
5.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 35472
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-1888
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35472
Bugtraq: 20091112 rPSA-2009-0145-1 samba samba-client samba-server samba-swat (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507856/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-1823 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1823
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:196
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10790
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7292
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022442
http://secunia.com/advisories/35539
http://secunia.com/advisories/35573
http://secunia.com/advisories/35606
http://secunia.com/advisories/36918
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.521591
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-839-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1664
XForce ISS Database: samba-acl-security-bypass(51327)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/51327
CopyrightCopyright (C) 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH

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