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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-951-1 samba -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

24 May 2017

Affected Packages:

samba

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7494.

More information:

steelo discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. A malicious client with access to a writable share, can take advantage of this flaw by uploading a shared library and then cause the server to load and execute it.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 2:3.6.6-6+deb7u13.

We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.

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