Ubuntu Update for samba vulnerability USN-680-1

Summary
Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-680-1
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered that Samba did not properly perform bounds checking in certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this to read arbitrary memory contents of the smb process, which could contain sensitive infomation or possibly have other impacts, such as a denial of service.
Affected
samba vulnerability on Ubuntu 8.10
References