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Gentoo 200412-13 High: Samba Integer Overflow Remote Execution

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2004
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Gentoo Advisory GLSA 202301-45: OpenSSL vulnerability could enable remote exploitation with critical urgency.
Samba contains a bug that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Samba: Integer overflow Date: December 17, 2004 Bugs: #73943 ID: 200412-13

Synopsis ======= Samba contains a bug that could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-fs/samba <= 3.0.9 >= 3.0.9-r1
========== Samba contains a bug when unmarshalling specific MS-RPC requests from clients.
Impact ===== A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of th...

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