USN-2922-1

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    USN-2922-1

    Published: 8 Mar 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026

    Summary: samba vulnerabilities

    Details: Jeremy Allison discovered that Samba incorrectly handled ACLs on symlink paths. A remote attacker could use this issue to overwrite the ownership of ACLs using symlinks. (CVE-2015-7560) Garming Sam and Douglas Bagnall discovered that the Samba internal DNS server incorrectly handled certain DNS TXT records. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain uninitialized memory contents. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2016-0771) It was discovered that the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) was vulnerable to clickjacking and cross-site request forgery attacks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-0213, CVE-2013-0214)

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2922-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-0213, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-0214, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7560, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-0771

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: samba

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/samba@2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.13?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.13

    Affected versions

    2:3.6.18-1ubuntu3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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