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Fedora: 2017-d0a537062c Moderate: Samba Privilege Escalation Threat

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Calendar Grey January 9, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The security patch 4.4.9 for Samba on Fedora addresses vulnerabilities related to privilege escalation and Kerberos, bolstering the overall security posture of the system.
Update to Samba 4.4.9 ---- Security fix for CVE-2016-2125, CVE-2016-2126

Summary

Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and

Unix.

Update Information:

Update to Samba 4.4.9 ---- Security fix for CVE-2016-2125, CVE-2016-2126

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Fedora privilege escalation security fix moderate severity Samba

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1403114 - CVE-2016-2125 samba: Unconditional privilege delegation to Kerberos servers in trusted realms https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403114 [ 2 ] Bug #1403115 - CVE-2016-2126 samba: Flaws in Kerberos PAC validation can trigger privilege elevation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1403115

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade samba' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: samba
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.4.9
Release: 0.fc24
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Summary: Server and Client software to interoperate with Windows machines

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Fedora privilege escalation security fix moderate severity Samba

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