Gentoo: 200304-02 Critical: Samba Remote Access Buffer Overflow
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April 9, 2003
An anonymous user can gain remote root access due to a buffer overflow caused by a StrnCpy() into a char array (fname) using a non-constant length (namelen).
Summary
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- From advisory:
"An anonymous user can gain remote root access due to a buffer overflow caused by a StrnCpy() into a char array (fname) using a non-constant length (namelen)."
Read the full advisory at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104972664226781&w=2
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-fs/samba upgrade to samba-2.2.8a as follows:
emerge sync emerge samba emerge clean
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2.2.8a
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PACKAGE : samba
SUMMARY : Buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-04-09 08:44 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <2.2.8a : fixed version>=2.2.8a
CVE : CAN-2003-0201
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