62186 : Samba mount.cifs Symlink Arbitrary File Access
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2010-01-29

Keywords

2009-3297

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2010-0787" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : client/mount.cifs.c in mount.cifs in smbfs in Samba 3.0.22, 3.0.28a, 3.2.3, 3.3.2, 3.4.0, and 3.4.5 allows local users to mount a CIFS share on an arbitrary mountpoint, and gain privileges, via a symlink attack on the mountpoint directory file.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Information Disclosure, Race Condition
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
Disclosure: Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Authentication Required

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Tools & Filters

	44336

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 4.4
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2010-03-03 | Disagree?

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