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Debian Security Advisory DSA 4043-1 (samba - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2017-14746 Yihan Lian and Zhibin Hu of Qihoo 360 GearTeam discovered a use-after-free vulnerability allowing a client to compromise a SMB server via malicious SMB1 requests. CVE-2017-15275 Volker Lendecke of SerNet and the Samba team discovered that Samba is prone to a heap memory information leak, where server allocated heap memory may be returned to the client without being cleared.
Affected Software
Affected Software
samba on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u9. For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages. For the detailed security status of samba please refer to its security tracker page linked in the references.