USN-918-1: Samba vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• samba -

Details

It was discovered the Samba handled symlinks in an unexpected way when both
"wide links" and "UNIX extensions" were enabled, which is the default. A
remote attacker could create symlinks and access arbitrary files from the
server.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.10

• samba - 2:3.4.0-3ubuntu5.6

Ubuntu 9.04

• samba - 2:3.3.2-1ubuntu3.4

Ubuntu 8.10

• samba - 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.8

Ubuntu 8.04

• samba - 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.11

Ubuntu 6.06

• samba - 3.0.22-1ubuntu3.11

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

ATTENTION: This update changes the default samba behaviour. For security
reasons, it is no longer possible to use wide links and UNIX extensions at
the same time. After applying this security update, wide links will be
disabled automatically as UNIX extensions are turned on by default. If
wide links are required, you can re-enable them by adding
"unix extensions = no" to the [global] section of the /etc/samba/smb.conf
configuration file.

References

• CVE-2010-0926