[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#527894: CVE-2008-6800: Race condition in the winbind daemon (aka winbindd) in Samba before 3.0.32

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

Package: samba
Version: 3.0.24-6etch10
Severity: serious
Tags: security etch

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Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for samba.

CVE-2008-6800[0]:
| Race condition in the winbind daemon (aka winbindd) in Samba before
| 3.0.32 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via
| unspecified vectors related to an "unresponsive" child process.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6800
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-6800


Cheers,
Giuseppe.

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