USN-2156-1: Samba vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2156-1

26th March, 2014

samba vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 13.10


• Ubuntu 12.10


• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS


• Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary

Samba did not properly enforce the password guessing protection mechanism.

Software description

• samba - SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix

Details

Andrew Bartlett discovered that Samba did not properly enforce the

password guessing protection mechanism for all interfaces. A remote

attacker could use this issue to possibly attempt to brute force user

passwords.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 13.10:

samba 2:3.6.18-1ubuntu3.2

Ubuntu 12.10:

samba 2:3.6.6-3ubuntu5.4

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

samba 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.10

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:

samba 2:3.4.7~dfsg-1ubuntu3.14

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://bit.ly/1aJDvTw.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2013-4496

via Ubuntu Security Notices http://bit.ly/1gCJctx