TSLSA-2002-0080 - samba

From: Trustix Secure Linux Advisor (tslat_private)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 06:44:14 PST

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    Trustix Secure Linux Security Advisory #2002-0080
    
    Package name:      samba
    Summary:           Remote hole
    Date:              2002-11-21
    Affected versions: TSL 1.5
    
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    Package description:
      Samba provides an SMB server which can be used to provide network
      services to SMB (sometimes called "Lan Manager") clients, including
      various versions of MS Windows, OS/2, and other Linux machines. Samba
      uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) protocols and does NOT need NetBEUI
      (Microsoft Raw NetBIOS frame) protocol.
      
    
    Problem description:
      From the Samba 2.2.7 release notes:
    
      There was a bug in the length checking for encrypted password change
      requests from clients. A client could potentially send an encrypted
      password, which, when decrypted with the old hashed password could be
      used as a buffer overrun attack on the stack of smbd. The attach would
      have to be crafted such that converting a DOS codepage string to little
      endian UCS2 unicode would translate into an executable block of code.
    
      All versions of Samba between 2.2.2 to 2.2.6 inclusive are vulnerable
      to this problem. This version of Samba 2.2.7 contains a fix for this
      problem.
    
    
    Action:
      We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded.
      Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this
      package, you may want to remove it from your system.
    
    
    Location:
      All TSL updates are available from
      <URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>
      <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>
    
    
    About Trustix Secure Linux:
      Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With
      focus on security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe
      and up to date from day one using swup, the automated software updater.
    
    
    Automatic updates:
      Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
      installed using 'swup --upgrade'.
    
      Get SWUP from:
      <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/software/swup/>
    
    
    Public testing:
      These packages have been available for public testing for some time.
      If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the
      testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the
      tsl-discuss mailinglist.
      The testing tree is located at
      <URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/>
      <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/>
      
    
    Questions?
      Check out our mailing lists:
      <URI:http://www.trustix.net/support/>
    
    
    Verification:
      This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL sign key.
      This key is available from:
      <URI:http://www.trustix.net/TSL-GPG-KEY>
    
      The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
      <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.5/>
      or directly at
      <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0080-samba.asc.txt>
    
    
    MD5sums of the packages:
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    96e5c4eedf3d3e638954f3649acd4759  ./1.5/RPMS/samba-2.2.7-2tr.i586.rpm
    1004f7c7d856db6933dd42cb3e1fdbcd  ./1.5/RPMS/samba-client-2.2.7-2tr.i586.rpm
    3bfce6f3114c2531e697749a7cb20b60  ./1.5/RPMS/samba-common-2.2.7-2tr.i586.rpm
    8b072b4cd0e60ebd0b1e1ed60e2a178c  ./1.5/SRPMS/samba-2.2.7-2tr.src.rpm
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    Trustix Security Team
    
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