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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-10858: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2018-1126)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-10858: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2018-1126)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/14/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/25/2019
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

A heap-buffer overflow was found in the way samba clients processed extra long filename in a directory listing. A malicious samba server could use this flaw to cause arbitrary code execution on a samba client. Samba versions before 4.6.16, 4.7.9 and 4.8.4 are vulnerable.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-samba

References

  • ALAS-2018-1126
  • USN-3738-1
  • DSA-4271
  • CVE-2018-10858

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