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SUSE Linux: 2021:1438-1 Important: Samba Buffer Overrun

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Calendar Grey April 29, 2021
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SUSE Security Update for NTP, introducing vital patches and actions to tackle significant security vulnerabilities decisively.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has two fixes is now available

Summary

This update for samba fixes the following issues: - CVE-2021-20254: Fixed a buffer overrun in sids_to_unixids() (bsc#1184677). - Avoid free'ing our own pointer in memcache when memcache_trim attempts to reduce cache size (bsc#1179156). - Adjust smbcacls '--propagate-inheritance' feature to align with upstream (bsc#1178469). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP5-2021-1438=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-2021-1438=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP5:

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security advisory buffer overrun samba fix important update SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#1178469 #1179156 #1184677

Cross- CVE-2021-20254

CVSS scores:

CVE-2021-20254 (SUSE): 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP5

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP5

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20254.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178469

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1179156

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1184677

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2021:1438-1
Rating: important

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