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samba: privilege escalation

Package(s):

samba

CVE #(s):

CVE-2010-0747

Created:

May 4, 2010

Updated:

May 5, 2010

Description:

From the Mandriva advisory:

client/mount.cifs.c in mount.cifs in smbfs in Samba allows local users to mount a CIFS share on an arbitrary mountpoint, and gain privileges, via a symlink attack on the mountpoint directory file

Alerts:

Mandriva

MDVSA-2010:090

2010-05-04

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