Samba could be made to run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Volker Lendecke discovered that the Samba NetBIOS name service daemon incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the root user.
1 August 2014
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Samba could be made to run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Volker Lendecke discovered that the Samba NetBIOS name service daemon incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code as the root user.
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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