Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs.asc
Solution
Upgrade your system to the appropriate stable release or security branch dated after the correction date
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=FreeBSD-SA-06:16.smbfs.asc
Insight
smbfs is a network file-system used to access file servers using the SMB/CIFS protocol. chroot(2) is system call designed to limit a process's access to a particular subset of a file-system.
smbfs does not properly sanitize paths containing a backslash character
in particular the directory name '..\' is interpreted as the parent directory by the SMB/CIFS server, but smbfs handles it in the same manner as any other directory.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2006-2654 -
CVSS Base Score: 6.4
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
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