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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2175-1 (samba)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
13 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to samba announced via advisory DSA 2175-1.
Insight
Insight
Volker Lendecke discovered that missing range checks in Samba's file descriptor handling could lead to memory corruption, resulting in denial of service.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.5-4lenny14. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.