IBM Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Samba affects IBM Spectrum Scale SMB protocol access method (CVE-2017-2619)

A Samba vulnerability affects IBM Spectrum Scale SMB protocol access method which could allow a remote authenticated attacker to launch a symlink attack, caused by a race condition. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using SMB1 unix extensions or NFS to create a symbolic link from a temporary file to various files on the system, which could allow the attacker to view non-exported files.

CVE(s): CVE-2017-2619

Affected product(s) and affected version(s):

IBM Spectrum Scale V4.2.0.0 thru V4.2.3

IBM Spectrum Scale V4.1.1.0 thru V4.1.1.14

Refer to the following reference URLs for remediation and additional vulnerability details:
Source Bulletin: http://ift.tt/2soeAZ0
X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/2qJRBai

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from IBM Product Security Incident Response Team http://ift.tt/2sobrbo