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TITLE:
Samba "smbd" Information Disclosure Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA32813

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/32813/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Samba 3.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/2999/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Samba, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing
"trans", "trans2", and "nttrans" requests. This can potentially be
exploited to disclose normally restricted "smbd" process memory via
specially crafted requests.

The vulnerability is reported in versions 3.0.29 through 3.2.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.2.5 or 3.0.33, or apply patches.
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/patches/security/samba-3.0.32-CVE-2008-4314.patch
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/patches/security/samba-3.2.4-CVE-2008-4314.patch

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2008-4314.html

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