(RHSA-2003:138) samba security update

2003-04-0700:00:00

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Samba is a suite of utilities which provides file and printer sharing
services to SMB/CIFS clients.

A security vulnerability has been found in versions of Samba up to and
including 2.2.8. An anonymous user could exploit the vulnerability to
gain root access on the target machine. Note that this is a different
vulnerability than the one fixed by RHSA-2003:096.

An exploit for this vulnerability is publicly available.

All users of Samba are advised to update to the packages listed in this
erratum, which contain a backported patch correcting this vulnerability.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
RedHatanyi386samba-common< 2.2.7-3.21assamba-common-2.2.7-3.21as.i386.rpm
RedHatanyi386samba< 2.2.7-3.21assamba-2.2.7-3.21as.i386.rpm
RedHatanyia64samba< 2.2.7-3.21assamba-2.2.7-3.21as.ia64.rpm
RedHatanyia64samba-common< 2.2.7-3.21assamba-common-2.2.7-3.21as.ia64.rpm
RedHatanyi386samba-swat< 2.2.7-3.21assamba-swat-2.2.7-3.21as.i386.rpm
RedHatanyi386samba-client< 2.2.7-3.21assamba-client-2.2.7-3.21as.i386.rpm
RedHatanyia64samba-swat< 2.2.7-3.21assamba-swat-2.2.7-3.21as.ia64.rpm
RedHatanyia64samba-client< 2.2.7-3.21assamba-client-2.2.7-3.21as.ia64.rpm

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
RedHat	any	i386	samba-common	< 2.2.7-3.21as	samba-common-2.2.7-3.21as.i386.rpm
RedHat	any	i386	samba	< 2.2.7-3.21as	samba-2.2.7-3.21as.i386.rpm
RedHat	any	ia64	samba	< 2.2.7-3.21as	samba-2.2.7-3.21as.ia64.rpm
RedHat	any	ia64	samba-common	< 2.2.7-3.21as	samba-common-2.2.7-3.21as.ia64.rpm
RedHat	any	i386	samba-swat	< 2.2.7-3.21as	samba-swat-2.2.7-3.21as.i386.rpm
RedHat	any	i386	samba-client	< 2.2.7-3.21as	samba-client-2.2.7-3.21as.i386.rpm
RedHat	any	ia64	samba-swat	< 2.2.7-3.21as	samba-swat-2.2.7-3.21as.ia64.rpm
RedHat	any	ia64	samba-client	< 2.2.7-3.21as	samba-client-2.2.7-3.21as.ia64.rpm