CVE-2010-0926
LOWEPSS 98th pctlDescription
The default configuration of smbd in Samba before 3.3.11, 3.4.x before 3.4.6, and 3.5.x before 3.5.0rc3, when a writable share exists, allows remote authenticated users to leverage a directory traversal vulnerability, and access arbitrary files, by using the symlink command in smbclient to create a symlink containing .. (dot dot) sequences, related to the combination of the unix extensions and wide links options.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-02/0083.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-02/0107.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-02/0108.html
- http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/02/exploiting-samba-symlink-traversal.html
- http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bd269443e311d96ef495a9db47d1b95eb83bb8f4
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-08/msg00001.html
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=126538598820903&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126539592603079&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126540402215620&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126540733320471&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126545363428745&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=126777580624790&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126539387432412&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540011609753&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540100511357&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540248613395&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540277713815&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540290614053&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540376915283&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540475116511&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540477016522&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540539117328&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540608318301&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126540695819735&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126547903723628&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126548356728379&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126549111204428&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=126555346721629&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39317
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/02/06/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/05/3
- http://www.samba.org/samba/news/symlink_attack.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=562568
- https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7104
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