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Gentoo: 202301-12 Critical: Samba File Sharing Security Flaw

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Calendar Grey March 7, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A vulnerability in nfs-utils affects Gentoo installations. Users should upgrade to secure their systems.
An error in nfs-utils allows for bypass of the netgroups restriction.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: nfs-utils: Access restriction bypass Date: March 07, 2009 Bugs: #242696 ID: 200903-06

Synopsis ======= An error in nfs-utils allows for bypass of the netgroups restriction.
Background ========= nfs-utils contains the client and daemon implementations for the NFS protocol.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-fs/nfs-utils < 1.1.3 >= 1.1.3
========== Michele Marcionelli reported that nfs-utils invokes the hosts_ctl() function with the wrong order of arguments, which causes TCP Wrappersto ignore netgroups.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could b...

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