Gentoo: GLSA-202310-01 Critical: OpenSSH Escalation Issue
gentoo
March 7, 2009
A missing boundary check in Samba might lead to the disclosure of memory contents.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200903-07
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: Samba: Data disclosure
Date: March 07, 2009
Bugs: #247620
ID: 200903-07
Synopsis
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A missing boundary check in Samba might lead to the disclosure of
memory contents.
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 < 3.0.33 >= 3.0.33
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Samba does not properly check memory boundaries when handling trans,
rans2, and nttrans requests.
Impact
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A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests to a Samba
daemon, leading to the disclosure of arbi...
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