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USN-680-1: Samba vulnerability

27 November 2008

Samba vulnerability

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Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that Samba did not properly perform bounds checking
in certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this to
read arbitrary memory contents of the smb process, which could contain
sensitive infomation or possibly have other impacts, such as a denial of
service.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.10

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References