USN-2950-4: Samba regressions
USN-2950-4: Samba regressions Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2950-4 18th May, 2016 samba regressions A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary USN-2950-1 introduced regressions in Samba. Software description samba – SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix Details USN-2950-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Samba. The backported fixes introducedin Ubuntu 12.04 LTS caused interoperability issues. This update fixescompatibility with certain NAS devices, and allows connecting to Samba 3.6servers by relaxing the "client ipc signing" parameter to "auto". We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jouni Knuutinen discovered that Samba contained multiple flaws in the DCE/RPC implementation. A remote attacker could use this issue to perform a denial of service, downgrade secure connections by performing a man in the middle attack, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-5370) Stefan Metzmacher discovered that Samba contained multiple flaws [ more… ]