CVE-2007-2838

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Published: 03/07/2007 Updated: 29/07/2017

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 641

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The populate_conns function in src/populate_conns.c in GSAMBAD 0.1.4 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the /tmp/gsambadtmp temporary file.

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Steve Kemp from the Debian Security Audit project discovered that gsambad, a GTK+ configuration tool for samba, uses temporary files in an unsafe manner which may be exploited to truncate arbitrary files from the local system For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 014-2etch1 For the unstable distribution (sid) ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1327 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24717 http://secunia.com/advisories/25909 http://secunia.com/advisories/25914 http://osvdb.org/37795 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35401 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-1327

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