USN-680-1: Samba vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.10

Packages

• samba -

Details

It was discovered that Samba did not properly perform bounds checking
in certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this to
read arbitrary memory contents of the smb process, which could contain
sensitive infomation or possibly have other impacts, such as a denial of
service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10

• samba - 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.3

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-4314