Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1788-1 samba -- LTS security update

Date Reported:
15 May 2019
Affected Packages:
samba
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-16860.
More information:

Isaac Boukris and Andrew Bartlett discovered that the S4U2Self Kerberos extension used in Samba's Active Directory support was susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks caused by incomplete checksum validation.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u13.

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