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Ubuntu 8.10: USN-702-1 Critical Samba Registry Access Risk

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A critical Samba flaw in Ubuntu grants unauthorized access to the root filesystem through registry shares. Urgent updates are necessary.
Gunter Höckel discovered that Samba with registry shares enabled did not properly validate share names

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security advisory critical samba root access ubuntu access risk registry shares

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security advisory critical samba root access ubuntu access risk registry shares

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