Samba smbd vulnerability (CVE-2015-0240)

Hi,

A Critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the smbd daemon (part of the Samba suite). Potentially, a remote exploit is possible. It affects almost all versions of Samba shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5-7. Samba shipped with the Red Hat Storage 2.1 and 3 products is also affected. Updated packages that fix the problem are available. All users are advised to update.

Please, see the following KB article for more detailed information (incl. links to respective errata). Samba vulnerability (CVE-2015-0240). A detection lab script is available for testing whether your system needs to be updated.