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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-0454 Detail

Current Description

Format string vulnerability in the afsacl.so VFS module in Samba 3.0.6 through 3.0.23d allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a filename on an AFS file system, which is not properly handled during Windows ACL mapping.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/14/2007)

Not vulnerable. These issues affect the AFS ACL module which is not distributed with Samba in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://osvdb.org/33101 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24021 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24046 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24060 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24067 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24101 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24145 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/24151 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017588 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.476916 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-0454.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1257 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200702-01.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/649732 CVE, Inc., Red Hat US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:034 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.012.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459179/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459365/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22403 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-419-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0483 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32304 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1005 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-0454
NVD Published Date:
02/05/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.