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USN-1226-1: Samba vulnerabilities

4 October 2011

An attacker could trick Samba into corrupting the system mtab file.

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Releases

Packages

  • samba - SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix

Details

Dan Rosenberg discovered that Samba incorrectly handled changes to the mtab
file. A local attacker could use this issue to corrupt the mtab file,
possibly leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1678)

Jan Lieskovsky discovered that Samba incorrectly filtered certain strings
being added to the mtab file. A local attacker could use this issue to
corrupt the mtab file, possibly leading to a denial of service. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2011-2724)

Dan Rosenberg discovered that Samba incorrectly handled the mtab lock file.
A local attacker could use this issue to create a stale lock file, possibly
leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3585)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 10.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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