USN-2855-1: Samba vulnerabilities
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2855-1 5th January, 2016 samba vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 15.10 Ubuntu 15.04 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in Samba. Software description samba – SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix Details Thilo Uttendorfer discovered that the Samba LDAP server incorrectly handledcertain packets. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the LDAPserver to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. This issueonly affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 15.10.(CVE-2015-3223) Jan Kasprzak discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain symlinks. Aremote attacker could use this issue to access files outside the exportedshare path. (CVE-2015-5252) Stefan Metzmacher discovered that Samba did not enforce signing whencreating encrypted connections. If a remote attacker were able to perform aman-in-the-middle attack, this flaw [ more… ]