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samba: bounds checking problem

Package(s):samba CVE #(s):CVE-2008-4314
Created:November 27, 2008 Updated:October 5, 2009
Description: Samba has a bounds checking issue. From the Ubuntu alert: It was discovered that Samba did not properly perform bounds checking in certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this to read arbitrary memory contents of the smb process, which could contain sensitive information or possibly have other impacts, such as a denial of service.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2009-10172 2009-10-03
Gentoo 200903-07 2009-03-07
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:027 2008-12-09
Fedora FEDORA-2008-10612 2008-12-02
Fedora FEDORA-2008-10518 2008-12-02
Fedora FEDORA-2008-10638 2008-12-02
Slackware SSA:2008-333-01 2008-12-01
Ubuntu USN-680-1 2008-11-27
rPath rPSA-2009-0006-1 2009-01-13
SuSE SUSE-SR:2009:001 2009-01-12
Fedora FEDORA-2009-0268 2009-01-07
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