Debian Security Advisory
DLA-894-1 samba -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 11 Apr 2017
- Affected Packages:
- samba
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-2619.
- More information:
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Jann Horn of Google discovered a time-of-check, time-of-use race condition in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. A malicious client can take advantage of this flaw by exploting a symlink race to access areas of the server file system not exported under a share definition.
For Debian 7
Wheezy
, these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u12.We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS