USN-544-1 fixed two vulnerabilities in Samba. Fixes for CVE-2007-5398 are unchanged, but the upstream changes for CVE-2007-4572 introduced a regression in all releases which caused Linux smbfs mounts to fail. Additionally, Dapper and Edgy included an incomplete patch which caused configurations using NetBIOS to fail. A proper fix for these regressions does not exist at this time, and so the patch addressing CVE-2007-4572 has been removed. This vulnerability is believed to be an unexploitable denial of service, but a future update will address this issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
16 November 2007
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
USN-544-1 fixed two vulnerabilities in Samba. Fixes for CVE-2007-5398 are unchanged, but the upstream changes for CVE-2007-4572 introduced a regression in all releases which caused Linux smbfs mounts to fail. Additionally, Dapper and Edgy included an incomplete patch which caused configurations using NetBIOS to fail. A proper fix for these regressions does not exist at this time, and so the patch addressing CVE-2007-4572 has been removed. This vulnerability is believed to be an unexploitable denial of service, but a future update will address this issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Samba developers discovered that nmbd could be made to overrun a buffer during the processing of GETDC logon server requests. When samba is configured as a Primary or Backup Domain Controller, a remote attacker could send malicious logon requests and possibly cause a denial of service. (CVE-2007-4572)
Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that nmbd did not properly check the length of netbios packets. When samba is configured as a WINS server, a remote attacker could send multiple crafted requests resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. (CVE-2007-5398)
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 upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
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