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Debian DSA-3171-1 Critical: Samba Remote Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey February 23, 2015
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Ubuntu has released an update for its firewall application to address a significant vulnerability that could permit unauthorized users to execute commands as a superuser from any network.
Richard van Eeden of Microsoft Vulnerability Research discovered that Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix, contains a flaw in the netlogon server code which al...

Summary

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u5.

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: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: samba
CVE ID: CVE-2015-0240

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