SUSE: 2020:4573-2 Critical: Samba Vulnerability Exploit
suse
May 24, 2017
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available
Summary
This update for samba fixes the following issue: - An unprivileged user with access to the samba server could cause smbd to load a specially crafted shared library, which then had the ability to execute arbitrary code on the server as 'root'. [CVE-2017-7494, bso#12780, bsc#1038231] Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-853=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-853=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-853=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP2:
Topics Covered
References
#1038231
Cross- CVE-2017-7494
Affected Products:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP2
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7494.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038231
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2017:1393-1
Rating: important
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