Mageia alert MGASA-2013-0246 (samba)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2013-0246: Updated samba package fixes security vulnerability 
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Sun, 11 Aug 2013 14:37:02 +0200
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MGASA-2013-0246 - Updated samba package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 11 Aug 2013
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0246.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 2, 3
CVE: CVE-2013-4124

Description:
Integer overflow in the read_nttrans_ea_list function in nttrans.c in
smbd in Samba 3.x before 3.5.22, 3.6.x before 3.6.17, and 4.x before
4.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory
consumption) via a malformed packet (CVE-2013-4124).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10926
- http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2013-4124
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4124

SRPMS:
- 3/core/samba-3.6.15-1.1.mga3
- 2/core/samba-3.6.5-2.3.mga2