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samba — security advisory
A flaw was found in the way samba handled file and directory permissions. An authenticated user could use this flaw to gain access to certain file and directory information which otherwise would be unavailable to the attacker.
- Products
- samba
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 4.11.16-r0, 4.12.9-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-14318
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in the way samba handled file and directory permissions. An authenticated user could use this flaw to gain access to certain file and directory information which otherwise would be unavailable to the attacker.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2020-14318
samba
Fixed versions: 4.11.16-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
samba
Fixed versions: 4.12.9-r0
Complete source record
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