SUSE: 2012:0500-1 Critical: Samba Remote Code Execution Issue
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April 14, 2012
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Summary
A remote code execution flaw in Samba has been fixed: * CVE-2012-1182: PIDL based autogenerated code uses client supplied size values which allows attackers to write beyond the allocated array size Also the following bugs have been fixed: * Samba printer name marshalling problems (bnc#722663) * mount.cifs: properly update mtab during remount (bnc#747906) * s3: compile IDL files in autogen, some configure tests need this. * Fix incorrect types in the full audit VFS module. Add null terminators to audit log enums (bnc#742885) * Do not map POSIX execute permission to Windows FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES; (bso#8631); (bnc#732572). Security Issue reference: * CVE-2012-1182
References
#722663 #732572 #742885 #747906 #752797
Cross- CVE-2012-1182
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 GPLv3 Extras
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1182.html
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0500-1
Rating: critical
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