Security Advisory SA31601 - Samba "group_mapping.ldb" Insecure Permissions Security Issue

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Secunia Advisory SA31601

Samba "group_mapping.ldb" Insecure Permissions Security Issue

Secunia Advisory

SA31601

Release Date

2008-08-26

Last Update

2008-08-29

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

Local system

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Software:

Samba 3.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2008-3789 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A security issue has been reported in Samba, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions.

The security issue is caused due to the application creating the group_mapping.ldb file with insecure permissions. This can be exploited to read or modify Samba group mapping information.

The security issue is reported in versions 3.2.0 through 3.2.2.

Solution
Update to version 3.2.3 or apply patches for version 3.2.2.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Reported by Sascha Herrmann in a Debian bug report.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
Samba:
http://samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2008-3789.html

Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496073

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