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Slackware 14.2 SSA:2016-363-02 Critical: Samba Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey December 28, 2016
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Latest samba updates for Slackware 14.2 address critical security flaws and vulnerabilities efficiently. Keep informed!
New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.2 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-4.4.8-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This release fixes security issues: CVE-2016-2123 (Samba NDR Parsing ndr_pull_dnsp_name Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability). CVE-2016-2125 (Unconditional privilege delegation to Kerberos servers in trusted realms). CVE-2016-2126 (Flaws in Kerberos PAC validation can trigger privilege elevation). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2123 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2125 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2126 (* Security fix *)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical code execution privilege escalation security fix Slackware Samba

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating 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 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.2 package: 319d89a81af42e06a47f8a145510ee93 samba-4.4.8-i586-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: edfd996044c3aa3a97ef11896dc9395c samba-4.4.8-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz
Slackware -current package: aa3943310194c731be15ad0973bbd823 n/samba-4.5.3-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 7d0cbef26e50234d774336bc80f948de n/samba-4.5.3-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical code execution privilege escalation security fix Slackware Samba

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg samba-4.4.8-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Then, if Samba is running restart it: # /etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart

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