Two local 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 problems:
CVE-2009-3297
Ronald Volgers discovered that a race condition in mount.cifs
allows local users to mount remote filesystems over arbitrary
mount points.
CVE-2010-0547
Jeff Layton discovered that missing input sanitising in mount.cifs
allows denial of service by corrupting /etc/mtab.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:3.2.5-4lenny9.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:3.4.5~dfsg-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.
Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the int...
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