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CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-2111

Published: Apr 30, 2012 | Modified: Apr 11, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
6 IMPORTANT
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2111
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

The (1) CreateAccount, (2) OpenAccount, (3) AddAccountRights, and (4) RemoveAccountRights LSA RPC procedures in smbd in Samba 3.4.x before 3.4.17, 3.5.x before 3.5.15, and 3.6.x before 3.6.5 do not properly restrict modifications to the privileges database, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain the take ownership privilege via an LSA connection.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
SambaSamba3.4.0 (including)3.4.0 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.1 (including)3.4.1 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.2 (including)3.4.2 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.3 (including)3.4.3 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.4 (including)3.4.4 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.5 (including)3.4.5 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.6 (including)3.4.6 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.7 (including)3.4.7 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.8 (including)3.4.8 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.9 (including)3.4.9 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.10 (including)3.4.10 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.11 (including)3.4.11 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.12 (including)3.4.12 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.13 (including)3.4.13 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.14 (including)3.4.14 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.15 (including)3.4.15 (including)
SambaSamba3.4.16 (including)3.4.16 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatsamba3x-0:3.5.10-0.109.el5_8*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatsamba-0:3.5.10-116.el6_2*
SambaUbuntulucid*
SambaUbuntunatty*
SambaUbuntuoneiric*
SambaUbuntuprecise*
SambaUbuntuupstream*

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