Samba: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202309-06

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba, the worst of which could result in root remote code execution.

Affected packages

net-fs/samba on all architectures
Affected versions < 4.18.4
Unaffected versions >= 4.18.4

Background

Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Samba users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-fs/samba-4.18.4"
 

References

Release date
September 17, 2023

Latest revision
September 17, 2023: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
remote

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