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USN-4217-2: Samba vulnerabilities

11 December 2019

Several security issues were fixed in Samba.

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Releases

Packages

  • samba - SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix

Details

USN-4217-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Samba. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Andreas Oster discovered that the Samba DNS management server incorrectly
handled certain records. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this
issue to crash Samba, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2019-14861)

Isaac Boukris discovered that Samba did not enforce the Kerberos
DelegationNotAllowed feature restriction, contrary to expectations.
(CVE-2019-14870)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Related notices

  • USN-4217-1: samba-common-bin, ctdb, samba, libwbclient-dev, samba-dsdb-modules, samba-common, libpam-winbind, python3-samba, python-samba, samba-libs, libwbclient0, libsmbclient, samba-vfs-modules, winbind, registry-tools, samba-dev, libnss-winbind, smbclient, libparse-pidl-perl, libsmbclient-dev, samba-testsuite