National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3789
Original release date:08/27/2008
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Samba 3.2.0 uses weak permissions (0666) for the (1) group_mapping.tdb and (2) group_mapping.ldb files, which allows local users to modify the membership of Unix groups.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/28/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of samba as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
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External Source: XF
Name: samba-groupmapping-security-bypass(44678)
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1020770
External Source: BID
Name: 30837
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20080826 CVE Request (samba)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-2440
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 31601
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2008-3789.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=496073