Debian Security Advisory: samba security fix update | Linux Today

Debian Security Advisory: samba security fix update

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 9, 2001
From:    Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA-048-3] samba security fix update
Date:    09 May 2001 16:06:55 +0200

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-048-3                   security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
May  9, 2001
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Package        : samba
Problem type   : local symlink attack
Debian-specific: no

Marc Jacobsen from HP discovered that the security fixes from samba
2.0.8 did not fully fix the /tmp symlink attack problem. The samba
team released version 2.0.9 to fix that, and those fixes have been
added to version 2.0.7-3.3 of the Debian samba packages.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
- ---------------------------------

  Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/samba_2.0.7-3.3.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: fb25d2efdcf9827f9c9f350e202ed47b
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/samba_2.0.7-3.3.dsc
      MD5 checksum: 7caa2f8b92500d4c2945ae3fbb51b30c
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/samba_2.0.7.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: b5e61ea655d476072fd0365785fea2d0

  Architecture independent archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/samba-doc_2.0.7-3.3_all.deb
      MD5 checksum: b7c93690b934ebbadbefd053eb1048e4

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/samba-common_2.0.7-3.3_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 864aeb1e6c6a59b073881a5108af35c8
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/samba_2.0.7-3.3_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 1baac8d043e7f209e8f84fa13c55c501
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/smbclient_2.0.7-3.3_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 0a2a844ac6600d1bcdf678b4b2b5e9b9
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/smbfs_2.0.7-3.3_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 070ddebfae51595ea509a6b091305695
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/swat_2.0.7-3.3_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 740ec8bd816bedabcae5e1e2ddbadec9

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/samba-common_2.0.7-3.3_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 544791b3a9c3ef845ef5a9ad13669590
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/samba_2.0.7-3.3_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 118fcd9580ce00b036643aecb73102eb
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/smbclient_2.0.7-3.3_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: b855eb4222737fbc852a9b3223afff80
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/smbfs_2.0.7-3.3_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: e18e1ed74f204be62d9f9e144976808d
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/swat_2.0.7-3.3_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 78cebbf5ee2b72cb067cca950230c0ac

  Intel IA-32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/samba-common_2.0.7-3.3_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 866f8c588ce6724dfc5e88d3a834c16d
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/samba_2.0.7-3.3_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: b9f55e1d8720da82f2773590267ae22b
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/smbclient_2.0.7-3.3_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: a3f4d744c71cbadf2479f0cda579b519
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/smbfs_2.0.7-3.3_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 68afbd272d229338d8b5abef5a7447b1
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/swat_2.0.7-3.3_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 8d8ab8c4bf21f09da1dd5c8472b2b0b2

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/samba-common_2.0.7-3.3_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 721bb1eeb7a6a9ac040a483552e246c3
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/samba_2.0.7-3.3_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 8d03030849cc8499ed725201921cf0f9
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/smbclient_2.0.7-3.3_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 294f6e1bc6eb452f22b0ce38d987af63
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/smbfs_2.0.7-3.3_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 13c067bebf1c691a069461b3d5974acc
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/swat_2.0.7-3.3_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 85923bbf62e5197fa8e97d20d9fd867b

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/samba-common_2.0.7-3.3_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: df8ff7ab53a51b28667688a49a4c2b0e
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/samba_2.0.7-3.3_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 0f356868a9a51c4ee29f552bec6d4ac2
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/smbclient_2.0.7-3.3_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: e468fdfabea28f5243556d0e083bafd3
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/smbfs_2.0.7-3.3_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 3f39802e251843d685e5573d5aab96f5
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/swat_2.0.7-3.3_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 31ffe9987d2c9b8097599c2b97dfbe6f

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/samba-common_2.0.7-3.3_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 71873cfcc6ab3f72ed3fc3c1f5d03ab6
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/samba_2.0.7-3.3_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 2bdc4bf4d61d47ff0f466ec897b540f1
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/smbclient_2.0.7-3.3_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 1168af2009fa68ceb7d30fc204d59ae1
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/smbfs_2.0.7-3.3_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: cbff6ec394d64078840f41e6b163e015
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/swat_2.0.7-3.3_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 14d0696198b0bb6c569314c6899ce7c3

  These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next
  revision.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .



apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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