Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
It was discovered that Winbind incorrectly handled invalid group names with the require_membership_of parameter. If an administrator used an invalid group name by mistake, access was granted instead of having the login fail. (CVE-2012-6150)
Stefan Metzmacher and Michael Adam discovered that Samba incorrectly handled DCE-RPC fragment length fields. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user. (CVE-2013-4408)
Hemanth Thummala discovered that Samba incorrectly handled file permissions when vfs_streams_depot or vfs_streams_xattr were enabled. A remote attacker could use this issue to bypass intended restrictions.
(CVE-2013-4475)
Affected
samba on Ubuntu 13.10 ,
Ubuntu 13.04 ,
Ubuntu 12.10 ,
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ,
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2012-6150, CVE-2013-4408, CVE-2013-4475 -
CVSS Base Score: 8.3
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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