CVE-2007-0454

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-134

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 3.0, 3.1
Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: 2006
Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server: 3.0, 4.0
Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linuxsoft 2007: all versions
Samba: 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.0.10, 3.0.11 (+13)

References

http://osvdb.org/33101
http://secunia.com/advisories/24021
http://secunia.com/advisories/24046
http://secunia.com/advisories/24060
http://secunia.com/advisories/24067
http://secunia.com/advisories/24101
http://secunia.com/advisories/24145
http://secunia.com/advisories/24151
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017588
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.476916
http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-0454.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1257

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