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Unscored USN-2922-1 2 CVEs

samba vulnerabilities

Published Mar 8, 2016 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Jeremy Allison discovered that Samba incorrectly handled ACLs on symlink
paths. A remote attacker could use this issue to overwrite the ownership of
ACLs using symlinks. (CVE-2015-7560)

Garming Sam and Douglas Bagnall discovered that the Samba internal DNS
server incorrectly handled certain DNS TXT records. A remote attacker could
use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service,
or possibly obtain uninitialized memory contents. This issue only applied
to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10. (CVE-2016-0771)

It was discovered that the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) was
vulnerable to clickjacking and cross-site request forgery attacks. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2013-0213, CVE-2013-0214)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS samba 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.13

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-7560 EPSS 13%

    The SMB1 implementation in smbd in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.23, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, 4.3.x before 4.3.6, and 4.4.x b…

  • Unscored —

    The internal DNS server in Samba 4.x before 4.1.23, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, 4.3.x before 4.3.6, and 4.4.x before 4.4.0rc4, …

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-0213
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-0214
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7560
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-0771