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Debian 4.0: DSA-1590-1 Critical: Samba Buffer Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey May 30, 2008
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Enhance your Samba installations on Debian to address a serious buffer overflow vulnerability that could trigger arbitrary code execution.
Alin Rad Pop discovered that Samba contained a buffer overflow condition when processing certain responses received while acting as a client, leading to arbitrary code execution ...
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.30-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------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.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 1427 c626b328fc1528860441417dc3f9f839
Size/MD5 checksum: 17708128 89273f67a6d8067cbbecefaa13747153
Size/MD5 checksum: 221051 1d2f4df0d02f79fdf5df209b865ac8b8

Architecture independent packages:

Size/MD5 checksum: 6599546 dbaaffd7f79dcd20ac33665bc03fcb7a
Size/MD5 checksum: 6941154 340b67b8341a16dbc4c08656e0f...

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