USN-556-1: Samba vulnerability

18 December 2007

Samba vulnerability

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Alin Rad Pop discovered that Samba did not correctly check the size
of reply packets to mailslot requests. If a server was configured
with domain logon enabled, an unauthenticated remote attacker could send
a specially crafted domain logon packet and execute arbitrary code or
crash the Samba service. By default, domain logon is disabled in Ubuntu.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 6.10
Ubuntu 6.06

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

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