news 28 Posted January 5, 2009 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] samba (SSA:2009-005-01) New samba packages are available for Slackware 12.2 and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0022 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.2 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/samba-3.2.7-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz: Upgraded to samba-3.2.7. This fixes a security issue. From the WHATSNEW.txt file: "This is a security release in order to address CVE-2009-0022. o CVE-2009-0022 In Samba 3.2.0 to 3.2.6, in setups with registry shares enabled, access to the root filesystem ("/") is granted when connecting to a share called "" (empty string) using old versions of smbclient (before 3.0.28). The original security announcement for this and past advisories can be found http://www.samba.org/samba/security/" For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0022 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional 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 12.2: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.2/patches/packages/samba-3.2.7-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/samba-3.2.7-i486-1.tgz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 12.2 package: 84369b496d7b0cfacb7c8548b0183630 samba-3.2.7-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz Slackware -current package: 3de9646804a53a6cf9df44df2e68ce13 samba-3.2.7-i486-1.tgz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg samba-3.2.7-i486-1_slack12.2.tgz Then, restart the Samba server if the machine uses 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
