Samba did not properly enforce the password guessing protection mechanism.
Andrew Bartlett discovered that Samba did not properly enforce the password guessing protection mechanism for all interfaces. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly attempt to brute force user passwords.
26 March 2014
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Samba did not properly enforce the password guessing protection mechanism.
Andrew Bartlett discovered that Samba did not properly enforce the password guessing protection mechanism for all interfaces. A remote attacker could use this issue to possibly attempt to brute force user passwords.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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