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Ubuntu 893-1 Critical: Samba Race Condition Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey January 28, 2010
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Critical Samba flaw detected in Ubuntu versions, enabling privilege escalation risks. Update immediately to fortify your system.
Ronald Volgers discovered that the mount.cifs utility, when installed as a setuid program, suffered from a race condition when verifying user permissions

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