Samba Grants Remote Authenticated Users Access to the Root Filesystem in Certain Cases
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1021513 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1021513
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2009-0022
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jan 5 2009
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Impact:
Disclosure of system information, Disclosure of user information
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes
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Version(s): 3.2.0 - 3.2.6
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in Samba. A remote authenticated user can access certain files on the target system in certain cases.
When a remote authenticated user connects to a share with an empty name ("") via a version of smbclient prior to 3.0.28, the user can access the root filesystem. Systems with registry shares enabled ("registry shares = yes") and with the "include = registry" and "config backend = registry" settings enabled are affected [not the default configuration].
Gunter Hockel reported this vulnerability.
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Impact:
A remote authenticated user can access files on the root filesystem ("/") with their own privileges.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix (3.2.7).
The vendor's advisory is available at:
http://samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2009-0022.html
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Vendor URL: samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2009-0022.html (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any)
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Message History:
None.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 08:59:20 -0500
Subject: Samba
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http://samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2009-0022.html
CVE-2009-0022
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