CVE-2006-2194

CVE-2006-2194 affects the winbind plugin in pppd (PPP, v2.4.4 and earlier). The code does not verify the success of setuid() when dropping privileges, which can fail under PAM limits and allow a local attacker to run the winbind NTLM authentication helper with elevated privileges. Impact is local...

Fedora Core 1 : samba-3.0.6-2.FC1 (2004-284)

Wed Aug 25 2004 Jay Fenlason 3.0.6-1.FC2 - Upgrade to 3.0.6 include the following patches: samba-3.0.5rc1-passwd.patch from me. This changes the character used in the password field of the entries generated by winbind from a 'x' to a ''. 'x' means something special 'password is in /etc/shadow' to...

RHEL 3 : samba (RHSA-2004:064)

Updated Samba packages that fix a security vulnerability are now available. Samba provides file and printer sharing services to SMB/CIFS clients. The Samba team discovered an issue that affects version 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 of Samba. If an account for a user is created, but marked as disabled using the...