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Debian DSA-2175-1 Moderate: Samba Memory Corruption Risk Advisory

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2011
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Samba security bulletin DSA-2176-2 highlights vulnerabilities related to buffer overflow causing potential system crashes. Immediate updates advised.
Volker Lendecke discovered that missing range checks in Samba's file descriptor handling could lead to memory corruption, resulting in denial of service
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Summary

Volker Lendecke discovered that missing range checks in Samba's file
descriptor handling could lead to memory corruption, resulting in denial
of service.

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: samba
CVE ID: CVE-2011-0719

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