Submitted by KeesCook on Tue, 2007-05-22 20:54.
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Description:
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-460-2 May 22, 2007
samba vulnerabilities
http://bugs.debian.org/424629
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 7.04
This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 7.04:
samba 3.0.24-2ubuntu1.2
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.
Details follow:
USN-460-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Samba. The upstream changes
for CVE-2007-2444 had an unexpected side-effect in Feisty. Shares
configured with the "force group" option no longer behaved correctly.
This update corrects the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Paul Griffith and Andrew Hogue discovered that Samba did not fully drop
root privileges while translating SIDs. A remote authenticated user
could issue SMB operations during a small window of opportunity and gain
root privileges. (CVE-2007-2444)


