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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200407-21
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: High
Title: Samba: Multiple buffer overflows
Date: July 29, 2004
Bugs: #57962
ID: 200407-21

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Synopsis
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Two buffer overflows vulnerabilities were found in Samba, potentially allowing the remote execution of arbitrary code.



Background
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Samba is a package which allows *nix systems to act as file servers for Windows computers. It also allows *nix systems to mount shares exported by a Samba/CIFS/Windows server. The Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) is a web-based configuration tool part of the Samba package.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-fs/samba >= 3.0.5