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Pardus: 2010-91: Samba: Memory Corruption
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
A vulnerability has been fixed in Samba, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2010-91 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2010-06-30
Severity: 3
Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed in Samba, which can be exploited by
malicious people to potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
Description
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CVE-2010-2063:
Buffer overflow in the SMB1 packet chaining implementation in the
chain_reply function in process.c in smbd in Samba 3.0.x before 3.3.13
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption
and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted field
in a packet.
Affected packages:
Pardus 2009:
samba, all before 3.3.10-53-14
Resolution
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There are update(s) for samba. You can update them via Package Manager
or with a single command from console:
pisi up samba
References
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* http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id477
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