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Debian 7 Wheezy DLA-894-1 Critical: Samba Symlink Race Condition Caution

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Calendar Grey April 11, 2017
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Upgrade Samba on Debian 7 Wheezy to enhance security against vulnerabilities reported by Jann Horn from Google. Follow these essential steps to secure your system
Jann Horn of Google discovered a time-of-check, time-of-use race condition in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
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Summary

We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


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<pre><font face="Courier">Package: samba
Version: 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u12
CVE ID: CVE-2017-2619

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