Secunia Security Advisory - Red Hat has issued an update for samba. This fixes a weakness and multiple security issues and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose potentially sensitive information and potentially gain escalated privileges and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and request forgery attacks.
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TITLE:
Red Hat update for samba
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45806
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-08-30
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DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued an update for samba. This fixes a weakness and
multiple security issues and vulnerabilities, which can be exploited
by malicious local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose
potentially sensitive information and potentially gain escalated
privileges and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
and request forgery attacks.
For more information:
SA38286
SA38811
SA45371
SA45393
SOLUTION:
Updated packages are available via Red Hat Network.
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ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
RHSA-2011:1219-1:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1219.html
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