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Debian: DSA-4427-1 Moderate: Samba Symlink Traversal Risk

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Calendar Grey April 8, 2019
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To mitigate the critical symlink traversal vulnerability in Samba, ensure you upgrade it on your Debian system by checking the version and updating carefully
Michael Hanselmann discovered that Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix, was vulnerable to a symlink traversal attack
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Summary

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.

For the detailed security status of samba please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/samba

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-2019-3880

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