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CVE-2003-0086

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-03-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The code for writing reg files in Samba before 2.2.8 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a race condition involving chown.

Affected products

• Samba: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+16)

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104792646416629&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104801012929374&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/8299
• http://secunia.com/advisories/8303
• http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-262
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200303-11.xml
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:032
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_016_samba.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-095.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-096.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/316165/30/25370/threaded

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