Privilege Escalation via Samba Share Mounting Vulnerability

CVE-2004-0186 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

smbmnt in Samba 2.x and 3.x on Linux 2.6, when installed setuid, allows local users to gain root privileges by mounting a Samba share that contains a setuid root program, whose setuid attributes are not cleared when the share is mounted.

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