DSA-4043-1 samba -- sambaID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:53194 | Date: (C)2019-04-04 (M)2023-12-20 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2017-14746 Yihan Lian and Zhibin Hu of Qihoo 360 GearTeam discovered a use-after-free vulnerability allowing a client to compromise a SMB server via malicious SMB1 requests. CVE-2017-15275 Volker Lendecke of SerNet and the Samba team discovered that Samba is prone to a heap memory information leak, where server allocated heap memory may be returned to the client without being cleared.