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Debian 3.1 DSA-1400-3 Severe: Samba Remote Command Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey May 17, 2007
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Upgrade Samba software on Debian systems to mitigate numerous remote execution vulnerabilities and heap overflow errors.
Various bugs in Samba's NDR parsing can allow a user to send specially crafted MS-RPC requests that will overwrite the heap space with user defined data.

Summary


CVE-2007-2446
Various bugs in Samba's NDR parsing can allow a user to send specially
crafted MS-RPC requests that will overwrite the heap space with user
defined data.

CVE-2007-2447
Unescaped user input parameters are passed as arguments to /bin/sh
allowing for remote command execution

For the old stable distribution (sarge), these problems have been fixed
in version 3.0.14a-3sarge6

We recommend that you upgrade your samba package.

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 3.1 (oldstable)
- ----------------------Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, ar...

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