remote command execution in samba, samba-client

Sebastian Krahmer, SuSE Security Team, reviewed security-critical parts of the Samba server within the scope of security audits that the SuSE Security Team conducts on a regular basis for security-critical Open Source Software. Buffer overflows and a chown race condition have been discovered and fixed during the security audit. The buffer overflow vulnerabilitiy allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the system running samba. In addition to the flaws fixed in the samba server, some overflow conditions in the samba-client package have been fixed with the available update packages. It is strongly recommended to install the update packages on a system where the samba package is used.