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Slackware 13.0: SSA:2010-169-01 Critical: Samba Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2010
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Multiple Slackware versions now have updated samba packages released to fix a critical buffer overflow vulnerability.
New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and 13.0 to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-3.2.15-i486-2_slack13.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched a buffer overflow in smbd that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted field in a packet. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-2063 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow samba critical threat slackware

Where Find New Packages

HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 10.0:
Updated package for Slackware 10.1:
Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
Updated package for Slackware 11.0:
Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
Updated package for Slackware 12.1:
Updated package for Slackware 12.2:
Updated package for Slackware 13.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 10.0 package: 10a993bff58438b18bddd294cc725a41 samba-3.0.37-i486-2_slack10.0.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package: 225648b0ab9e1a4ecc222d1024d4288a samba-3.0.37-i486-2_slack10.1.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package: 8913ff3bf21984f56af81919e0fac4f4 samba-3.0.37-i486-2_slack10.2.tgz
Slackware 11.0 package: 1e0d6af565abe474a5bfc1714f2573ab samba-3.0.37-i486-2_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware 12.0 package: cbac23dd62fb2acd49bf456b4d89146f samba-3.0.37-i486-2_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package: ea0b7fa2a0bff911c4826b3265afa66a samba-3.0.37-i486-2_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package: bb15e8c8ab8d21974e8b9322d9c9b254 samba-3.2.15-i486-2_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware 13.0 package: 9128f7e9777d0bc6494ea967d839b0c0 samba-3.2.15-i486-2_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: ea5bbde1ad107f92585429e3cb40a434 samba-3.2.15-x86_64-2_slack13.0.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow samba critical threat slackware

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg samba-3.2.15-i486-2_slack13.0.txz Then, restart samba.

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