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Pardus: 2011-110: Samba: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in samba.
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2011-110 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2011-09-05
Type: Remote
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Summary
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been fixed in samba.
Description
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CVE-2011-2522:
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Samba
Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.x before 3.5.10 allow remote
attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests
that (1) shut down daemons, (2) start daemons, (3) add shares, (4)
remove shares, (5) add printers, (6) remove printers, (7) add user
accounts, or (8) remove user accounts, as demonstrated by certain start,
stop, and restart parameters to the status program.
CVE-2011-2694 :
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the chg_passwd function in
web/swat.c in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.x
before 3.5.10 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject
arbitrary web script or HTML via the username parameter to the passwd
program (aka the user field to the Change Password page).
Affected packages:
Pardus 2009:
samba, all before 3.3.16-56-17
Pardus 2011:
samba, all before 3.5.10-68-p11
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:
Pardus 2009:
pisi up samba
Pardus 2011:
pisi up samba
References
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* http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id842
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