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Slackware 10.0 SSA:2004-207-01 Critical: Samba Buffer Overflow Fix

slackware
Calendar Grey July 26, 2004
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent samba updates for Slackware address significant security vulnerabilities, accompanied by thorough installation guidelines.
New samba packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 10.0 ChangeLog: Sun Jul 25 14:17:29 PDT 2004 patches/packages/samba-3.0.5-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to samba-3.0.5. This fixes a buffer overflow in SWAT and another in the code supporting the 'mangling method = hash' smb.conf option (which is not the default). For more details, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-CAN-2004-0600 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-CAN-2004-0686 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical package update security patch Slackware Samba

Where Find New Packages

Updated package for Slackware 8.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/patches/packages/samba-2.2.10-i386-1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 9.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patches/packages/samba-2.2.10-i386-1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 9.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/patches/packages/samba-2.2.10-i486-1.tgz
Updated package for Slackware 10.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 8.1 package: 03d53b165cf21bab6c0e26f98268d445 samba-2.2.10-i386-1.tgz
Slackware 9.0 package: 99cba95be5231d46327d3ca055a792db samba-2.2.10-i386-1.tgz
Slackware 9.1 package: 75e92332f92858430fbc01e0adf29c7b samba-2.2.10-i486-1.tgz
Slackware 10.0 package: d4d00d9c748386da1dcd5ab941dbb294 samba-3.0.5-i486-1.tgz
Slackware -current package: d4d00d9c748386da1dcd5ab941dbb294 samba-3.0.5-i486-1.tgz

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Topics Covered

security advisory buffer overflow critical package update security patch Slackware Samba

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: As root, stop the samba server: . /etc/rc.d/rc.samba stop Next, upgrade the samba package(s) with upgradepkg: upgradepkg samba-3.0.5-i486-1.tgz Finally, start samba again: . /etc/rc.d/rc.samba start