DSA-2175-1 samba -- missing input sanitising

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2175-1 samba -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

28 Feb 2011

Affected Packages:

samba

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2011-0719.

More information:

Volker Lendecke discovered that missing range checks in Samba's file descriptor handling could lead to memory corruption, resulting in denial of service.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.5-4lenny14.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.