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Gentoo: GLSA-200705-15 High: Samba Multiple Remote Execution Risks

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2007
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Samba on Gentoo is affected by several critical vulnerabilities that could lead to unauthorized remote code execution. It is advised to perform an immediate update.
Samba contains multiple vulnerabilities potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-15 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: May 15, 2007 Bugs: #177029 ID: 200705-15

Synopsis ======= Samba contains multiple vulnerabilities potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.
Background ========= Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs for UNIX.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-fs/samba < 3.0.24-r2 >= 3.0.24-r2
========== Samba contains a logical error in the smbd daemon when translating local SID to user names (CVE-2007-2444). Furthermore, Samba contains several bugs when parsing NDR enc...

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