Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Samba, the worst of which may allow execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. samba 2016-12-24 2016-12-24 568432 578004 local, remote 4.2.11 4.2.11

Samba is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in samba. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with root privileges, cause a Denial of Service condition, conduct a man-in-the-middle attack, obtain sensitive information, or bypass file permissions.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Samba users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-fs/samba-4.2.11" CVE-2015-3223 CVE-2015-5252 CVE-2015-5296 CVE-2015-5299 CVE-2015-5330 CVE-2015-7540 CVE-2015-8467 CVE-2016-2110 CVE-2016-2111 CVE-2016-2112 CVE-2016-2113 CVE-2016-2114 CVE-2016-2115 CVE-2016-2118 whissi whissi