SMB4K Multiple Vulnerabilities

The 'smb4k' is prone to multiple vulnerabilities, including:

- A buffer-overflow vulnerability
- A denial-of-service vulnerability
- An information-disclosure issue
- An insecure-temporary-file-creation issue.

An attacker can exploit this issue to completely compromise affected computers. This includes executing arbitrary code with superuser privileges, crashing arbitrary processes, gaining access to sensitive information, and writing to the 'sudoers' file.

These issues affect version 0.8.0; other versions may also be vulnerable.


 

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