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Fedora 25 Samba Update: CVE-2017-2619 Critical Symlink Race Issue

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Calendar Grey April 2, 2017
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The recent security patch for Samba pertains to CVE-2023-1234, with the advisory outlining essential modifications to enhance system integrity.
Security fix for CVE-2017-2619

Summary

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

Unix.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2017-2619

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security advisory fedora critical samba security fix symlink race

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1429472 - CVE-2017-2619 samba: symlink race permits opening files outside share directory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1429472

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 25
Version: 4.5.8
Release: 0.fc25
URL: /
Summary: Server and Client software to interoperate with Windows machines

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