gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200903-07.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200903-07">
  <title>Samba: Data disclosure</title>
  <synopsis>
    A missing boundary check in Samba might lead to the disclosure of memory
    contents.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">samba</product>
  <announced>March 07, 2009</announced>
  <revised>March 07, 2009: 01</revised>
  <bug>247620</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-fs/samba" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.0.33</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.33</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Samba does not properly check memory boundaries when handling trans,
    rans2, and nttrans requests.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could send specially crafted requests to a Samba
    daemon, leading to the disclosure of arbitrary memory or to a Denial of
    Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Samba users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-fs/samba-3.0.33&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4314">CVE-2008-4314</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:43:46 +0000">
    craig
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:28:04 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:28:16 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>