full-disclosure - GLSA: samba (200304-02)

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Message-ID: <20030409084413.2748E33A82@mail1.tamperd.net>
From: aliz at gentoo.org (Daniel Ahlberg)
Subject: GLSA:  samba (200304-02)

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200304-02
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          PACKAGE : samba
          SUMMARY : Buffer overflow
             DATE : 2003-04-09 08:44 UTC
          EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <2.2.8a
    FIXED VERSION : >=2.2.8a
              CVE : CAN-2003-0201

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- From advisory:

"An anonymous user can gain remote root access due to a buffer overflow caused
by a StrnCpy() into a char array (fname) using a non-constant length 
(namelen)."

Read the full advisory at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104972664226781&w=2

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-fs/samba upgrade to samba-2.2.8a as follows:

emerge sync
emerge samba
emerge clean

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