Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-1886 to the following vulnerability: Name: CVE-2009-1886 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1886 Assigned: 20090602 Reference: CONFIRM: http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/patches/security/samba-3.2.12-CVE-2009-1886.patch Reference: CONFIRM: http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2009-1886.html Reference: CONFIRM: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6478 Reference: BID:35472 Reference: URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35472 Reference: SECUNIA:35539 Reference: URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/35539 Reference: VUPEN:ADV-2009-1664 Reference: URL: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1664 Multiple format string vulnerabilities in client/client.c in smbclient in Samba 3.2.0 through 3.2.12 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a filename.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and earlier provide Samba 3.0.x which is not vulnerable to this issue. This issue is also caught by fortify source on Fedora and as a result is a non-issue.