DSA-2004-1 samba -- severalID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:600154 | Date: (C)2011-01-28 (M)2023-11-09 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Two local vulnerabilities have been discovered in samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2009-3297 Ronald Volgers discovered that a race condition in mount.cifs allows local users to mount remote filesystems over arbitrary mount points. CVE-2010-0547 Jeff Layton discovered that missing input sanitising in mount.cifs allows denial of service by corrupting /etc/mtab. For the stable distribution , these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.2.5-4lenny9. For the unstable distribution , these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.4.5~dfsg-2. We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.