Slackware Linux Advisories: samba, sendmail
Mar 30, 2003, 00:51 (0 Talkback[s])
[slackware-security] Samba buffer overflow fixed
The samba packages in Slackware 8.1 and -current have been patched to fix
a security problem. All sites running samba should upgrade.
Here are the details from the Slackware 8.1 ChangeLog:
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Sat Mar 15 13:49:04 PST 2003
patches/packages/samba-2.2.8-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to Samba 2.2.8.
From the Samba web site:
* (14th Mar, 2003) Security Release - Samba 2.2.8
A flaw has been detected in the Samba main smbd code which
could allow an external attacker to remotely and anonymously
gain Super User (root) privileges on a server running a
Samba server. This flaw exists in previous versions of Samba
from 2.0.x to 2.2.7a inclusive. This is a serious problem
and all sites should either upgrade to Samba 2.2.8
immediately or prohibit access to TCP ports 139 and 445.
(* Security fix *)
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More information may be found in the Samba release notes.
WHERE TO FIND THE NEW PACKAGES:
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Updated Samba package for Slackware 8.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patches/packages/samba-2.2.8-i386-1.tgz
Updated Samba package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/samba-2.2.8-i386-1.tgz
MD5 SIGNATURES:
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Here are the md5sums for the packages:
Slackware 8.1 package:
be4bee0ed2c50e9313150843e41b09ad samba-2.2.8-i386-1.tgz
Slackware -current package:
940d26d3f74763524976a61f44637b22 samba-2.2.8-i386-1.tgz
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
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As root, upgrade the samba package(s) with upgradepkg:
upgradepkg samba-2.2.8-i386-1.tgz
Then, restart samba:
/etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart
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Slackware Linux Security Team
http://slackware.com/gpg-key
security@slackware.com
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[slackware-security] Sendmail buffer overflow fixed
The sendmail packages in Slackware 8.1 and -current have been patched to fix
a security problem. All sites running sendmail should upgrade.
More information on the problem can be found here:
http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.8.html
Here are the details from the Slackware 8.1 ChangeLog:
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Mon Mar 3 10:29:01 PST 2003
patches/packages/sendmail-8.12.8-i386-1.tgz: Upgraded to sendmail-8.12.8.
From sendmail's RELNOTES:
SECURITY: Fix a remote buffer overflow in header parsing by dropping sender
and recipient header comments if the comments are too long. Problem noted
by Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force.
(* Security fix *)
patches/packages/sendmail-cf-8.12.8-noarch-1.tgz: Updated config files for
sendmail-8.12.8.
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WHERE TO FIND THE NEW PACKAGES:
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Updated packages for Slackware 8.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patches/packages/sendmail-8.12.8-i386-1.tgz
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patches/packages/sendmail-cf-8.12.8-noarch-1.tgz
Updated packages for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/sendmail-8.12.8-i386-1.tgz
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/sendmail-cf-8.12.8-noarch-1.tgz
MD5 SIGNATURES:
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Here are the md5sums for the packages:
Slackware 8.1 packages:
c2c72b982d91d9ca0f59ab2afdf337f2 sendmail-8.12.8-i386-1.tgz
0b8e338169dca7487dd042ba070120d1 sendmail-cf-8.12.8-noarch-1.tgz
Slackware -current packages:
a9db559cd852164577f26efff1e9b36d sendmail-8.12.8-i386-1.tgz
0141c1f40e1efd148f9ccd1d5a09e7f0 sendmail-cf-8.12.8-noarch-1.tgz
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:
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As root, upgrade the sendmail package(s) with upgradepkg:
upgradepkg sendmail-*.tgz
Then, restart sendmail:
/etc/rc.d/rc.sendmail restart
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Slackware Linux Security Team
http://slackware.com/gpg-key
security@slackware.com
