Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-460-2
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
USN-460-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Samba. The upstream changes for CVE-2007-2444 had an unexpected side-effect in Feisty. Shares configured with the "
force group"
option no longer behaved correctly.
This update corrects the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Paul Griffith and Andrew Hogue discovered that Samba did not fully drop root privileges while translating SIDs. A remote authenticated user could issue SMB operations during a small window of opportunity and gain root privileges. (CVE-2007-2444)
Affected
samba regression on Ubuntu 7.04
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2007-2444 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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