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 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