USN-4121-1: Samba vulnerability

First published: Tue Sep 03 2019(Updated: )

Stefan Metzmacher discovered that the Samba SMB server did not properly prevent clients from escaping outside the share root directory in some situations. An attacker could use this to gain access to files outside of the Samba share, where allowed by the permissions of the underlying filesystem.

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