Red Hat, Debian release updated Samba packages | Linux Today

Red Hat, Debian release updated Samba packages

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 31, 1999

Several vulnerabilities discovered in Samba will encourage you
to apply these fixes to your distribution.

According to the Debian announce list:

  • a Denial-of-Service attack against nmbd was possible
  • it was possible to exploit smbd if you had a message command
    defined which used the %f or %M formatter.
  • smbmnt’s check to see if a user is allowed to create a mount
    was flawed which allowed users to mount at arbitraty mountpoints in
    the filesystem

Debian Updated
directory


Red Hat Errata

Web Webster

Web Webster

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