Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-680-1

Please Install the Updated Packages.

It was discovered that Samba did not properly perform bounds checking in certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this to read arbitrary memory contents of the smb process, which could contain sensitive infomation or possibly have other impacts, such as a denial of service.

samba vulnerability on Ubuntu 8.10

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2008-November/000790.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25