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SUSE update for samba


Secunia ID

SA48879

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-0817, CVE-2012-0870, CVE-2012-1182

Release Date

16 Apr 2012

Last Change

18 Apr 2012

Criticality

Moderately Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From local network

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

SUSE has issued an update for samba. This fixes multiple vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and compromise a vulnerable system.

For more information:
SA47763
SA48152
SA48742

Solution

Apply updated packages via the zypper package manager.

Original Advisory

SUSE-SU-2012:0502-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00008.html

SUSE-SU-2012:0515-1:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00014.html