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SUSE Linux 10: 2012:0591-1 Important: Samba CVE-2012-2111 Privilege Risk

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2012
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An important SUSE patch for Samba has been released to mitigate the security vulnerability CVE-2012-2111. Immediate action is needed to secure systems.
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Summary

This update of Samba fixes the following security issue: * CVE-2012-2111: Ensure that users cannot hand out their own privileges to everyone, only administrators are allowed to do that. Security Issue reference: * CVE-2012-2111 Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 GPLv3 Extras (i586 ia64 ppc s390x x86_64): libnetapi-devel-3.4.3-0.43.1 libnetapi0-3.4.3-0.43.1 libtalloc-devel-3.4.3-0.43.1 libtalloc1-3.4.3-0.43.1 libtdb-devel-3.4.3-0.43.1 libtdb1-3.4.3-0.43.1 libwbclient-devel-3.4.3-0.43.1 libwbclient0-3.4.3-0.43.1 samba-gplv3-3.4.3-0.43.1 samba-gplv3-client-3.4.3-0.43.1 samba-gplv3-krb-printing-3.4.3-0.43.1 samba-gplv3-winbind-3.4.3-0.43.1

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue privilege escalation important SUSE Linux Samba CVE-2012-2111

References

#757080 #757576

Cross- CVE-2012-2111

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 GPLv3 Extras

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2111.html

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2012:0591-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue privilege escalation important SUSE Linux Samba CVE-2012-2111

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