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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-10858: Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-10858: Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/22/2018
Created
03/28/2020
Added
03/27/2020
Modified
03/27/2020

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)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-fs-samba

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