Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-2305-1

USN-2305-1: Samba vulnerability

Publication date

1 August 2014

Overview

Samba could be made to run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Releases

14.04 LTS

Packages

samba - SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix

Details

Volker Lendecke discovered that the Samba NetBIOS name service daemon
incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use
this issue to execute arbitrary code as the root user.

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
14.04 trusty	samba – 2:4.1.6+dfsg-1ubuntu2.14.04.3

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References

CVE-2014-3560

CVE-2014-3560