CVE-2007-2444 Information

Description

Logic error in the SID/Name translation functionality in smbd in Samba 3.0.23d through 3.0.25pre2 allows local users to gain temporary privileges and execute SMB/CIFS protocol operations via unspecified vectors that cause the daemon to transition to the root user.

Reference

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01078980 http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-May/0006.html http://osvdb.org/34698 http://secunia.com/advisories/25232 http://secunia.com/advisories/25241 http://secunia.com/advisories/25246 http://secunia.com/advisories/25251 http://secunia.com/advisories/25255 http://secunia.com/advisories/25256 http://secunia.com/advisories/25259 http://secunia.com/advisories/25270 http://secunia.com/advisories/25289 http://secunia.com/advisories/25675 http://secunia.com/advisories/25772 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-15.xml http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2701 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.475906 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102964-1 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200588-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1291 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:104 http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.012.html http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-2444.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468548/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468670/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23974 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018049 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0017/ http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-460-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-460-2 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1805 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2210 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2281 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1366