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Debian: DSA-048-3 Moderate Update for Samba Symlink Attack Issue

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2001
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Debian updates Samba to address a moderate symlink attack issue with critical security fixes available for users.
Marc Jacobsen from HP discovered that the security fixes from samba 2.0.8 did not fully fix the /tmp symlink attack problem

Summary

Package : samba
Problem type : local symlink attack
Debian-specific: no

Marc Jacobsen from HP discovered that the security fixes from samba
2.0.8 did not fully fix the /tmp symlink attack problem. The samba
team released version 2.0.9 to fix that, and those fixes have been
added to version 2.0.7-3.3 of the Debian samba packages.

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Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

Source archives:

MD5 checksum: fb25d2efdcf9827f9c9f350e202ed47b

MD5 checksum: 7caa2f8b92500d4c2945ae3fbb51b30c

MD5 checksum: b5e61ea655d476072fd0365785fea2d0

Architecture independent archives:

MD5 checksum: b7c93690b934ebbadbefd053eb1048e4

Alpha architecture:


MD5 checksum: 864aeb1e6c6a59b073881a5108af35c8

MD5 checksum: 1baac8d043e7f209e8f84fa13c55c501

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