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A vulnerability has been reported in Smb4K, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to the insecure handling of temporary files "/tmp/smb4k.tmp" and "/tmp/sudoers". This can be exploited via symlink attacks to gain full access to the "/etc/super.tab" and "/etc/sudoers" files.

The vulnerability has been reported in all versions of 0.4, 0.5, and 0.6 prior to 0.6.3. The vulnerability reportedly has not been adequately addressed in version 0.6.3.

Solution
Update to the fixed version or apply patch.
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Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://smb4k.berlios.de/

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