Foresight Linux Essential Advisory: 2007-0017-1 Published: 2007-05-15 Rating: Severe Updated Versions: samba=/conary.rpath.com@rpl:devel//1/3.0.25-0.1-1 group-dist=/foresight.rpath.org@fl:1-devel//1/1.2.2-0.6-1 References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2242 http://lwn.net/Articles/232675/ References: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2444 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2446 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2447 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1366 Description: Previous versions of the samba package are vulnerable to multiple attacks in which remote attackers may be able to run arbitrary code as the root user on samba servers. The default install of Foresight is not vulnerable - one must manually configure samba for these vulnerabilities to be exposed. --- Copyright 2007 Foresight Linux Project Portions Copyright 2007 rPath, Inc. This file is distributed under the terms of the MIT License. A copy is available at http://www.foresightlinux.org/permanent/mit-license.html