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SUSE CORE 9: 2012:0338-1 Critical: Samba Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey March 8, 2012
Dist Suse Esm H88
A crucial update from SUSE for Samba tackles a significant buffer overflow vulnerability, bolstering overall system integrity.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update of Samba fixes a heap-based buffer overflow that could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to crash the smbd daemon or potentially execute arbitrary code via specially crafted SMB AndX request packets (CVE-2012-0870). Security Issue reference: * CVE-2012-0870 Package List: - SUSE CORE 9 (i586 s390 s390x x86_64): libsmbclient-3.0.26a-0.21 libsmbclient-devel-3.0.26a-0.21 samba-3.0.26a-0.21 samba-client-3.0.26a-0.21 samba-doc-3.0.26a-0.21 samba-pdb-3.0.26a-0.21 samba-python-3.0.26a-0.21 samba-vscan-0.3.6b-0.49 samba-winbind-3.0.26a-0.21 - SUSE CORE 9 (x86_64): libsmbclient-32bit-9-201202240204 samba-32bit-9-201202240204 samba-client-32bit-9-201202240204

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security advisory security issue buffer overflow remote exploit critical Samba SUSE CORE 9

References

#747934

Cross- CVE-2012-0870

Affected Products:

SUSE CORE 9

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0870.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0338-1
Rating: critical

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security advisory security issue buffer overflow remote exploit critical Samba SUSE CORE 9

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