Two security issues were found in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server: CVE-2013-4408 It was discovered that multiple buffer overflows in the processing of DCE-RPC packets may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2013-4475 Hemanth Thummala discovered that ACLs were not checked when opening files with alternate data streams. This issue is only exploitable if the VFS modules vfs_streams_depot and/or vfs_streams_xattr are used.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze11. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.6-6+deb7u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.

Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol for Unix systems, providing support for cross-platform file and printer sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems. Samba can also function as an NT4-style domain controller, and can integrate with both NT4 domains and Active Directory realms as a member server.

samba on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2812.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25