news 28 Posted March 24, 2017 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] samba (SSA:2017-082-02) New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/samba-4.4.12-i586-1_slack14.2.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes a security issue: All versions of Samba prior to 4.6.1, 4.5.7, 4.4.12 are vulnerable to a malicious client using a symlink race to allow access to areas of the server file system not exported under the share definition. For more information, see: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2619 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/samba-4.4.12-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/samba-4.4.12-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/samba-4.4.12-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/samba-4.4.12-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Updated package for Slackware 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/patches/packages/samba-4.4.12-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.2/patches/packages/samba-4.4.12-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/samba-4.6.1-i586-1.txz Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/samba-4.6.1-x86_64-1.txz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 14.0 package: c17714e61d60e8e643bdd9bc51edafe1 samba-4.4.12-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 54bfdadaf8b7abc1242c5a71ea0a407f samba-4.4.12-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz Slackware 14.1 package: 500af32e09c75b7a234b4a9e05c62f5a samba-4.4.12-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 9f86969a772e06f991e9452dda584b81 samba-4.4.12-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz Slackware 14.2 package: e48f91e5a15555caec1d6c4b8b3b88f7 samba-4.4.12-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Slackware x86_64 14.2 package: 4dd6e6936de5236eef7f7b0254390b05 samba-4.4.12-x86_64-1_slack14.2.txz Slackware -current package: 4b0c75d2b3fecc64c6ad50c3d847e839 n/samba-4.6.1-i586-1.txz Slackware x86_64 -current package: ff9eca50dedd7452a9f3a6f6fed43c84 n/samba-4.6.1-x86_64-1.txz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg samba-4.4.12-i586-1_slack14.2.txz Then, if Samba is running restart it: # /etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
