Gentoo: GLSA-202310-15 Normal: OpenSSH Key Negotiation Vulnerability
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May 29, 2008
A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in Samba, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200805-23
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Samba: Heap-based buffer overflow
Date: May 29, 2008
Bugs: #222299
ID: 200805-23
Synopsis
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A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in Samba, allowing
for the execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-fs/samba < 3.0.28a-r1 >= 3.0.28a-r1
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Alin Rad Pop (Secunia Research) reported a vulnerability in Samba
within the receive_smb_raw() function in the file lib/util_sock.c when
parsing SMB packets, possibly leading to a heap...
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