National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2007-4138
Orirignal release date: 2007-09-13
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    The Winbind nss_info extension (nsswitch/idmap_ad.c) in idmap_ad.so in Samba 3.0.25 through 3.0.25c, when the "winbind nss info" option is set to rfc2307 or sfu, grants all local users the privileges of gid 0 when the (1) RFC2307 or (2) Services for UNIX (SFU) primary group attribute is not defined.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 6.9 (Medium)
    Range: local
    Authentication:
    Impact Type: avail,conf,int,sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Samba (Samba)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4138