CVE-2015-5252

Publication date 16 December 2015

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.2 · High

Score breakdown

Description

vfs.c in smbd in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3, when share names with certain substring relationships exist, allows remote attackers to bypass intended file-access restrictions via a symlink that points outside of a share.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
samba 17.04 zesty
Fixed 2:4.3.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1
16.10 yakkety
Fixed 2:4.3.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2:4.3.3+dfsg-1ubuntu1
15.10 wily
Fixed 2:4.1.17+dfsg-4ubuntu3.1
15.04 vivid
Fixed 2:4.1.13+dfsg-4ubuntu3.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.11
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.13
samba4 17.04 zesty Not in release
16.10 yakkety Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
15.10 wily Not in release
15.04 vivid Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

says 3.0.0 to 4.3.2 3.6 patch in upstream bug original patch introduced a regression, see usn-2855-2

Patch details

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Package Patch details
samba

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.2 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

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