[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#563021: Bug#563021: samba: netbios spoofing

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 19:42 -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: 
> it has been disclosed that it is possible to poison netbios' name
> resolution [0],[1].  the discussion seems to be windows-specific, but
> samba may also be affected.  please check.
There isn't anything new here. Netbios is known to be insecure, it's been like that for years.

> do you know of any other debian packages that support or would be
> affected by netbios issues?
Debian does not fall back to NetBIOS lookups if DNS lookups do not work,
so this doesn't seem relevant. 

Cheers,

Jelmer
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