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Debian DSA-2175-1 : samba - missing input sanitising

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52463

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Volker Lendecke discovered that missing range checks in Samba's file descriptor handling could lead to memory corruption, resulting in denial of service.

Solution

Upgrade the samba packages.

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.5-4lenny14.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze2.

See Also

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/samba

https://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2175

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52463

File Name: debian_DSA-2175.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/1/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0719

BID: 46597

DSA: 2175