CVE-2007-0473 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-0473
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Description: The writeFile function in core/smb4kfileio.cpp in Smb4K before 0.8.0 does not preserve /etc/sudoers permissions across modifications, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (/etc/sudoers contents) by reading this file.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0015.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23937 Secunia Advisory: SA23984 Secunia Advisory: SA24111 Secunia Advisory: SA24469 MLIST MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:042 GENTOO http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-09.xml CONFIRM http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11706 http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11902 http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=9777 http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=9630&group_id=769 BID 22299

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