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Debian: DSA 702-3 Critical: Samba Integer Overflow Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey April 21, 2005
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Revised Samba updates address integer overflow vulnerabilities that enable potential remote exploitation. Prompt upgrade advised for enhanced protection.
Updated package.

Summary


For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 2.2.3a-15.

The version in the unstable distribution (sid) is not affected by this
new problem.

We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

Size/MD5 checksum: 771 a830503053c010eaf927e278aa9bee46
Size/MD5 checksum: 128578 5019368376bf7e7021d6fac84b4ebb41
Size/MD5 checksum: 5460531 b6ec2f076af69331535a82b586f55254

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 che...

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