Samba security updates

Number: AV17-175
Date: 21 November 2017

Purpose

The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to the recently released security updates for Samba.

Assessment

Samba has released security patches to address vulnerabilities which could allow a malicious actor to compromise CompromiseThe intentional or unintentional disclosure of information, which adversely impacts its confidentiality, integrity, or availability. a system/or exploit memory leaks.

Affected Versions:
CVE-2017-14746: All versions of Samba from 4.0.0 and up.
CVE-2017-15275: All versions of Samba from 3.6.0 and up.

Suggested Action

CCIRC recommends that system administrators test and deploy the vendor-released updates to affected applications or workarounds to affected platforms accordingly.

References:

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-14746.html
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-15275.html

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