Synopsis:    Critical: samba3x security update
Issue Date:  2012-04-10
CVE Numbers: CVE-2012-1182


Samba is an open-source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) or
Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, which allows PC-compatible
machines to share files, printers, and other information.

A flaw in the Samba suite's Perl-based DCE/RPC IDL (PIDL) compiler, used
to generate code to handle RPC calls, resulted in multiple buffer overflows
in Samba. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could send a specially-crafted
RPC request that would cause the Samba daemon (smbd) to crash or, possibly,
execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the root user.
(CVE-2012-1182)

Users of Samba are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing this
update, the smb service will be restarted automatically.

SL5:
  i386
     samba3x-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
     samba3x-client-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
     samba3x-common-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
     samba3x-debuginfo-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
     samba3x-doc-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
     samba3x-domainjoin-gui-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
     samba3x-swat-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
     samba3x-winbind-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
     samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
  x86_64
     samba3x-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
     samba3x-client-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
     samba3x-common-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
     samba3x-debuginfo-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
     samba3x-debuginfo-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
     samba3x-doc-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
     samba3x-domainjoin-gui-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
     samba3x-swat-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
     samba3x-winbind-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
     samba3x-winbind-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.x86_64.rpm
     samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.i386.rpm
     samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team