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Ubuntu: USN-2922-1 (CVE-2016-0771): Samba vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-2922-1 (CVE-2016-0771): Samba vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/08/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/13/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

The internal DNS server in Samba 4.x before 4.1.23, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, 4.3.x before 4.3.6, and 4.4.x before 4.4.0rc4, when an AD DC is configured, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory by uploading a crafted DNS TXT record.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-samba
  • ubuntu-upgrade-swat

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