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Security bugfix for Samba (fwd)


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John Goerzen
Southwind Internet Access, Inc. Technical Support
Business e-mail: jgoerzen@southwind.net

Personal e-mail: jgoerzen@complete.org
Wichita State University e-mail: jgoerzen@cs.twsu.edu
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux    <http://www.debian.org>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 00:07:19 +1000
From: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@SAMBA.ANU.EDU.AU>
Reply-To: Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
Subject: Security bugfix for Samba

                Security bugfix for Samba
                -------------------------

A security hole in all versions of Samba has been recently
discovered. The security hole allows unauthorized remote users to
obtain root access on the Samba server.

An exploit for this security hole has been posted to the internet so
system administrators should assume that this hole is being actively
exploited.

The exploit for the security hole is very architecture specific and
has been only demonstrated to work for Samba servers running on Intel
based platforms. The exploit posted to the internet is specific to
Intel Linux servers. It would be very difficult to produce an exploit
for other architectures but it may be possible.

A new release of Samba has now been made that fixes the security
hole. The new release is version 1.9.17p2 and is available from
ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/samba-1.9.17p2.tar.gz

This release also adds a routine which logs a message if anyone
attempts to take advantage of the security hole. The message (in the
Samba log files) will look like this:

        ERROR: Invalid password length 999
        you're machine may be under attack by a user exploiting an old bug
        Attack was from IP=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd

where aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is the IP address of the machine performing the attack.

        The Samba Team
        samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au


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