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Debian: DSA 374-1 Critical: Libpam-Smb Buffer Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey August 26, 2003
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Upgrade libpam-smb to fix a critical buffer overflow vulnerability allowing potential unauthorized access.
If a long password is supplied, this cancause a buffer overflow which could be exploited to execute arbitrarycode with the privileges of the process which invokes PAM services.

Summary

libpam-smb is a PAM authentication module which makes it possible to
authenticate users against a password database managed by Samba or a
Microsoft Windows server. If a long password is supplied, this can
cause a buffer overflow which could be exploited to execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the process which invokes PAM services.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.6-1.1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) does not contain a libpam-smb
package.

We recommend that you update your libpam-smb package.

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 internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

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Package: libpam-smb

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