Gentoo: 200303-11 Critical: Samba Buffer Overflow Remote Exploit

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-11
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- From advisory:

"The SuSE security audit team, in particular Sebastian Krahmer
, has found a flaw in the Samba main smbd code which
could allow an external attacker to remotely and anonymously gain
Super User (root) privileges on a server running a Samba server."

"A buffer overrun condition exists in the SMB/CIFS packet fragment
re-assembly code in smbd which would allow an attacker to cause smbd
to overwrite arbitrary areas of memory in its own process address
space. This could allow a skilled attacker to inject binary specific
exploit code into smbd."

Read the full advisory at: 


SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-fs/samba upgrade to samba-2.2.8 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge s...
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