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samba: privilege escalation

Package(s):samba CVE #(s):CVE-2010-0787
Created:May 11, 2010 Updated:September 23, 2011
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:
CentOS CESA-2011:1219 2011-09-22
Scientific Linux SL-samb-20110829 2011-08-29
CentOS CESA-2011:1219 2011-08-29
Red Hat RHSA-2011:1219-01 2011-08-29
SUSE SUSE-SR:2010:014 2010-08-02
Mandriva MDVSA-2010:090-1 2010-05-04
SuSE SUSE-SA:2010:025 2010-07-01
Oracle ELSA-2012-0313 2012-03-07
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:0348-1 2012-03-09

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