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Possible SAMBA Vulnerability

Posted by michael on from the apt-get-time-again dept.

veg writes "The samba team have released 2.2.7 following the discovery of a secureity hole in versions 2.2.2 to 2.2.6 that could lead to remote root access. Eeek! Full story on the samba site"

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  1. Re:When by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Eloy Paris and Steve Langasek (spelling?) of the Debian
    Samba community were chasing a user reported core dump bug
    and they noticed the problem.

    They reported it to security@samba.org, and I fixed it that
    night (with a perfectly correct CVS comment that also failed
    to point out the security hole :-).

    We then worked with the Linux vendors via the vendorsec
    mailing list to ensure they were all aware of the problem
    and could issue updates at the same time we announced. Once
    we'd tested the release, we pushed the button and released...

    That is a nice textbook case of how Open Source/Free Software
    security can work.

    Cheers,

    Jeremy Allison,
    Samba Team