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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2855-1

Posted Jan 5, 2016

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2855-1 - Thilo Uttendorfer discovered that the Samba LDAP server incorrectly handled certain packets. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause the LDAP server to stop responding, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 15.04 and Ubuntu 15.10. Jan Kasprzak discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain symlinks. A remote attacker could use this issue to access files outside the exported share path. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2015-3223, CVE-2015-5252, CVE-2015-5296, CVE-2015-5299, CVE-2015-5330, CVE-2015-7540, CVE-2015-8467

SHA-256 | 18d6b6eab4573732c5916ffb8324e2969fbb471ee55086f434a7c90629cc7e91

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