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Debian Lenny DSA-2004-1 Moderate: Samba Local Issues Fixed

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2010
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Recent Samba updates address local vulnerabilities in Debian that could lead to unauthorized file access and interruptions in service.
Two local vulnerabilities have been discovered in samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix

Summary

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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Package: samba

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