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Debian DSA-1291-1 Moderate: Samba Remote Access Threats Resolved

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2007
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Address different Samba-related problems on Debian environments, covering potential hazards associated with heightened access privileges.
Several issues have been identified in Samba, the SMB/CIFS file and print-server implementation for GNU/Linux

Summary


CVE-2007-2446
Various bugs in Samba's NDR parsing can allow a user to send specially
crafted MS-RPC requests that will overwrite the heap space with user
defined data.

CVE-2007-2447
Unescaped user input parameters are passed as arguments to /bin/sh
allowing for remote command execution

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.0.24-6etch1

For the testing and unstable distributions (lenny and sid,
respectively), these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.25-1

We recommend that you upgrade your samba package.

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 pro...

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