Please Install the Updated Packages.

Samba is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and other information. A flaw was found in the way Samba handled file descriptors. If an attacker were able to open a large number of file descriptors on the Samba server, they could flip certain stack bits to &quot 1&quot values, resulting in the Samba server (smbd) crashing. (CVE-2011-0719) Red Hat would like to thank the Samba team for reporting this issue. Users of Samba are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing this update, the smb service will be restarted automatically.

samba on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server), Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2011-March/msg00001.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25