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Old 11-27-2008
USN-680-1: Samba vulnerability
Referenced CVEs:
CVE-2008-4314


Description:
=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-680-1 November 27, 2008 samba vulnerability CVE-2008-4314 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 8.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 8.10: samba 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3.3 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: It was discovered that Samba did not properly perform bounds checking in certain operations. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this to read arbitrary memory contents of the smb process, which could contain sensitive infomation or possibly have other impacts, such as a denial of service.





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regpatch

REGPATCH(1)						    System Administration tools 					       REGPATCH(1)

NAME

       regpatch - Applies registry patches to registry files

SYNOPSIS

       regpatch [--help] [--backend=BACKEND] [--credentials=CREDENTIALS] [location] [patch-file]

DESCRIPTION

       The regpatch utility applies registry patches to Windows registry files. The patch files should have the same format as is being used by
       the regdiff utility and regedit32.exe from Windows.

       If no patch file is specified on the command line, regpatch attempts to read it from standard input.

OPTIONS

       --help
	   Show list of available options.

       --backend BACKEND
	   Name of backend to load. Possible values are: creg, regf, dir and rpc. The default is dir.

       --credentials=CREDENTIALS
	   Credentials to use, if any. Password should be separated from user name by a percent sign.

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

       regdiff, regtree, regshell, gregedit, samba, diff, patch

AUTHOR

       This utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2].

       This manpage and regpatch were written by Jelmer Vernooij.

NOTES

	1. Samba
	   http://www.samba.org/

	2. Samba Team
	   http://www.samba.org/samba/team/

Samba 4.0							    06/17/2014							       REGPATCH(1)