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TITLE:
Samba "mount.cifs" Race Condition Security Issue

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38286

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38286/

DESCRIPTION:
A security issue has been reported in Samba, which can be exploited
by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive
information and potentially gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to a race condition within the
"mount.cifs" utility, which can be exploited by replacing mountpoints
with symlinks.

Note: Successful privilege escalation may require that the
"mount.cifs" utility is suid root.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the GIT repository.
http://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=3ae5dac462c4ed0fb2cd94553583c56fce2f9d80
http://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=a065c177dfc8f968775593ba00dffafeebb2e054
http://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=a0c31ec1c8d1220a5884e40d9ba6b191a04a24d5

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Ronald Volgers

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Samba bug #6853:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6853

Red Hat bug #532940:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532940

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