Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-460-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
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)
Brian Schafer discovered that Samba did not handle NDR parsing correctly. A remote attacker could send specially crafted MS-RPC requests that could overwrite heap memory and execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2007-2446)
It was discovered that Samba did not correctly escape input parameters for external scripts defined in smb.conf. Remote authenticated users could send specially crafted MS-RPC requests and execute arbitrary shell commands. (CVE-2007-2447)
Affected
samba vulnerabilities on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 6.10 ,
Ubuntu 7.04
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2007-2444, CVE-2007-2446, CVE-2007-2447 -
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Related Vulnerabilities