Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-617-1

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Samba developers discovered that nmbd could be made to overrun a buffer during the processing of GETDC logon server requests. When samba is configured as a Primary or Backup Domain Controller, a remote attacker could send malicious logon requests and possibly cause a denial of service. (CVE-2007-4572) Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that Samba did not properly perform bounds checking when parsing SMB replies. A remote attacker could send crafted SMB packets and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2008-1105)

samba vulnerabilities on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS , Ubuntu 7.04 , Ubuntu 7.10 , Ubuntu 8.04 LTS