CVE-2019-3880

A flaw was found in the way samba implemented an RPC endpoint emulating the Windows registry service API. An unprivileged attacker could use this flaw to create a new registry hive file anywhere they have unix permissions which could lead to creation of a new file in the Samba share.

This issue affects the version of samba shipped with Red Hat Gluster Storage 3, as it contains the vulnerable functionality.

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Either turn off SMB1 by setting the global parameter: 'min protocol = SMB2' or if SMB1 is required turn off unix extensions by setting the global parameter: 'unix extensions = no' in the smb.conf file.