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Debian DSA-3816-1 Samba Race Condition Moderate Access Risk Advisory

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Calendar Grey March 23, 2017
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Enhance your samba installations to resolve a concurrency issue impacting server connectivity in Debian as outlined in advisory DSA-3816-1.
Jann Horn of Google discovered a time-of-check, time-of-use race condition in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
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Summary

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:4.5.6+dfsg-2.

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/



Package: samba
CVE ID: CVE-2017-2619

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