Privilege Escalation

Samba is vulnerable to privilege escalation attacks. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted Privilege Attribute Certificate PAC to trigger an overflow and cause the target winbindd service to crash. Additionally a local service with access to the winbindd privileged pipe can...

Moderate: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: samba bug fix and enhancement update

Updated samba packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Samba is an open-source implementation of the Server Message Block SMB protocol and the related Common Internet File System CIFS protocol, which allow PC-compatible machines...