Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2463-1 samba -- missing permission checks
- Date Reported:
- 02 May 2012
- Affected Packages:
- samba
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-2111.
- More information:
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Ivano Cristofolini discovered that insufficient security checks in Samba's handling of LSA RPC calls could lead to privilege escalation by gaining the
take ownership
privilege.For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze8.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 3.6.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.