National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2948

Overview

mount.cifs in Samba 3.0 before 3.0.37, 3.2 before 3.2.15, 3.3 before 3.3.8 and 3.4 before 3.4.2, when mount.cifs is installed suid root, does not properly enforce permissions, which allows local users to read part of the credentials file and obtain the password by specifying the path to the credentials file and using the --verbose or -v option.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-10172

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00098.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2009-10180

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-October/msg00095.html

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-839-1

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-839-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1022975

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022975

External Source: BID

Name: 36572

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36572

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2009-2948.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2009-2948.html

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2009-276-01

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2009&m=slackware-security.561439

External Source: XF

Name: samba-mountcifs-info-disclosure(53574)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/53574

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-2810

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2810

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36953

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36953

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36937

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36937

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36918

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36918

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 36893

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/36893

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7087

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7087

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10434

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10434

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 58520

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/58520

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://news.samba.org/releases/3.4.2/

Hyperlink:http://news.samba.org/releases/3.4.2/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://news.samba.org/releases/3.3.8/

Hyperlink:http://news.samba.org/releases/3.3.8/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://news.samba.org/releases/3.2.15/

Hyperlink:http://news.samba.org/releases/3.2.15/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://news.samba.org/releases/3.0.37/

Hyperlink:http://news.samba.org/releases/3.0.37/

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2009:017

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7087

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7087

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10434

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10434