CVE-2007-0454 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2007-0454?

CVE-2007-0454 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 6 Feb 2007. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-134

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-0454?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux, Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server, Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linuxsoft 2007, Samba Samba.

How do I fix CVE-2007-0454?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2007-0454 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-0454 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2007-0454, GHSA-mq9f-755p-rg7c.