Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-918-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered the Samba handled symlinks in an unexpected way when both "
wide links"
and "
UNIX extensions"
were enabled, which is the default. A
remote attacker could create symlinks and access arbitrary files from the server.
Affected
samba vulnerability on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS ,
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 8.10 ,
Ubuntu 9.04 ,
Ubuntu 9.10
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2010-0926 -
CVSS Base Score: 3.5
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
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