CVE-2007-0473

Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-02-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The writeFile function in core/smb4kfileio.cpp in Smb4K before 0.8.0 does not preserve /etc/sudoers permissions across modifications, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information (/etc/sudoers contents) by reading this file.

Affected products

Smb4K: 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7

References

http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=9630&group_id=769
http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11706
http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=11902
http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?release_id=9777
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0015.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23937
http://secunia.com/advisories/23984
http://secunia.com/advisories/24111
http://secunia.com/advisories/24469
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-09.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:042
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22299

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