Please Install the Updated Packages.

The samba developers discovered that nmbd could be made to overrun a buffer during the processing of GETDC logon server requests. If samba is configured as a Primary or Backup Domain Controller, this could be used by a remote attacker to send malicious logon requests and possibly cause a denial of service (CVE-2007-4572). As well, Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research found that nmbd did not properly check the length of netbios packets. If samba is configured as a WINS server, this could be used by a remote attacker able to send multiple crafted requests to nmbd, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges (CVE-2007-5398). Update: The patch that fixed CVE-2007-4572 introduced a regression that would prevent shares from being mounted properly and would cause the remote (patched) smbd to crash. This update contains another fix from upstream to correct the problem.

samba on Mandriva Linux 2007.0, Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64, Mandriva Linux 2007.1, Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64, Mandriva Linux 2008.0, Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64

• http://lists.mandriva.com/security-announce/2007-11/msg00040.php

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Updated on 2015-03-25