USN-5260-2: Samba vulnerability

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-44142  

Samba could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Details

Orange Tsai discovered that the Samba vfs_fruit module incorrectly handled
certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause
Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2021-44142)