Samba: Integer overflow

Background

Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients.

Description

Samba contains a bug when unmarshalling specific MS-RPC requests from clients.

Impact

A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Samba, which could be the root user.

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-3.0.9-r1"