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Slackware: 2011-059-01 High Severity: Samba Memory Corruption Fix

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Calendar Grey March 1, 2011
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Recent updates to samba packages in Slackware tackle issues of memory corruption, enhancing both security and performance for the end-users.
New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, and -current to fix a denial of service security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 13.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-3.5.7-i486-1_slack13.1.txz: Upgraded. Fix memory corruption denial of service issue. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-0719 (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high severity samba memory corruption slackware

Where Find 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 (https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for additional mirror sites near you.
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 10.1:
Updated package for Slackware 10.2:
Updated package for Slackwa...

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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: bf098646ed2899c7afa05953126dbd62 samba-3.0.37-i486-4_slack10.0.tgz
Slackware 10.1 package: 504069cee84738e189078757dbbf0e61 samba-3.0.37-i486-4_slack10.1.tgz
Slackware 10.2 package: dc1691693d27f718b9f924b29ed8aa57 samba-3.0.37-i486-4_slack10.2.tgz
Slackware 11.0 package: ba6b673c523db71779905409df79f463 samba-3.0.37-i486-4_slack11.0.tgz
Slackware 12.0 package: 4d7cd71c544246a982d1f9c166596714 samba-3.0.37-i486-4_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package: 528c05507d8d43bb0831670c5b662b80 samba-3.0.37-i486-4_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware 12.2 package: ab8cce1dc3ed9c7f8d518699445109eb samba-3.2.15-i486-4_slack12.2.tgz
Slackware 13.0 package: a12b8cb6b718c68451f91016ec286aa2 samba-3.2.15-i486-4_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package: c1521a16c02e02e50a75f53f67138a3e samba-3.2.15-x86_64-4_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package: ec8895e12c3c5d63e980d8d2442c2690 samba-3.5.7-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package: d506c4cce4f4e2ed4d001a3c62f7fa03 samba-3.5.7-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware -current package: 5482a2667d0efdf99f7dda369c39b4fd samba-3.5.7-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 88b166a77f3580964224a41c5bb0477b samba-3.5.7-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service high severity samba memory corruption slackware

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg samba-3.5.7-i486-1_slack13.1.txz Then, if Samba is running restart it: # /etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart