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Posted on 21 November 2017
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-4043-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
November 21, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : samba
CVE ID : CVE-2017-14746 CVE-2017-15275
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file,
print, and login server for Unix. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project identifies the following issues:
CVE-2017-14746
Yihan Lian and Zhibin Hu of Qihoo 360 GearTeam discovered a
use-after-free vulnerability allowing a client to compromise a SMB
server via malicious SMB1 requests.
CVE-2017-15275
Volker Lendecke of SerNet and the Samba team discovered that Samba
is prone to a heap memory information leak, where server allocated
heap memory may be returned to the client without being cleared.
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u9.
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u1.
We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.
For the detailed security status of samba please refer to its security
tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/samba
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
