CVE-2009-2813
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6 · CWE-264
6CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Samba 3.4 before 3.4.2, 3.3 before 3.3.8, 3.2 before 3.2.15, and 3.0.12 through 3.0.36, as used in the SMB subsystem in Apple Mac OS X 10.5.8 when Windows File Sharing is enabled, Fedora 11, and other operating systems, does not properly handle errors in resolving pathnames, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended sharing restrictions, and read, create, or modify files, in certain circumstances involving user accounts that lack home directories.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=126514298313071&w=2
- http://news.samba.org/releases/3.0.37/
- http://news.samba.org/releases/3.2.15/
- http://news.samba.org/releases/3.3.8/
- http://news.samba.org/releases/3.4.2/
- http://osvdb.org/57955