Gentoo: 200712-11 Critical: OpenSSH Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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December 10, 2007
Samba contains a buffer overflow vulnerability potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200712-10
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Samba: Execution of arbitrary code
Date: December 10, 2007
Bugs: #200773
ID: 200712-10
Synopsis
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Samba contains a buffer overflow vulnerability potentially resulting in
the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs for UNIX.
Affected packages
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1 net-fs/samba < 3.0.28 >= 3.0.28
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