Synopsis: Important: samba3x security update Issue date: 2011-03-01 CVE Names: CVE-2011-0719 A flaw was found in the way Samba handled file descriptors. If an attacker were able to open a large number of file descriptors on the Samba server, they could flip certain stack bits to "1" values, resulting in the Samba server (smbd) crashing. (CVE-2011-0719) After installing this update, the smb service will be restarted automatically. SL 5.x SRPMS: samba3x-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.src.rpm i386: samba3x-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.i386.rpm samba3x-client-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.i386.rpm samba3x-common-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.i386.rpm samba3x-doc-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.i386.rpm samba3x-domainjoin-gui-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.i386.rpm samba3x-swat-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.i386.rpm samba3x-winbind-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.i386.rpm samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.i386.rpm x86_64: samba3x-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm samba3x-client-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm samba3x-common-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm samba3x-doc-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm samba3x-domainjoin-gui-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm samba3x-swat-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm samba3x-winbind-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.i386.rpm samba3x-winbind-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.i386.rpm samba3x-winbind-devel-3.5.4-0.70.el5_6.1.x86_64.rpm -Connie Sieh -Troy Dawson