DSA-4345-1 samba -- security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-14629   CVE-2018-16841   CVE-2018-16851  

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2018-14629 Florian Stuelpner discovered that Samba is vulnerable to infinite query recursion caused by CNAME loops, resulting in denial of service. https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-14629.html CVE-2018-16841 Alex MacCuish discovered that a user with a valid certificate or smart card can crash the Samba AD DC's KDC when configured to accept smart-card authentication. https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-16841.html CVE-2018-16851 Garming Sam of the Samba Team and Catalyst discovered a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the Samba AD DC LDAP server allowing a user able to read more than 256MB of LDAP entries to crash the Samba AD DC's LDAP server. https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-16851.html For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u4. We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages. For the detailed security status of samba please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/samba

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4345-1 samba -- security update

Date Reported:
27 Nov 2018
Affected Packages:
samba
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-14629, CVE-2018-16841, CVE-2018-16851.
More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.

For the detailed security status of samba please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/samba