CVE-2007-0472 Information

Description

Multiple race conditions in Smb4K before 0.8.0 allow local users to (1) modify arbitrary files via unspecified manipulations of Smb4K’s lock file which is not properly handled by the remove_lock_file function in core/smb4kfileio.cpp and (2) add lines to the sudoers file via a symlink attack on temporary files which isn’t properly handled by the writeFile function in core/smb4kfileio.cpp.

Reference

http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=9630&group_id=769 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://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0015.html http://secunia.com/advisories/23937 http://secunia.com/advisories/23984 http://secunia.com/advisories/24111 http://secunia.com/advisories/24469 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-09.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:042 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22299 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0393 https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/smb4k-announce/2006-December/000037.html