Slackware 14.1: 2016-068-02 Critical: Samba Security Issues
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March 8, 2016
New samba packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-4.1.23-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs, and two security issues: Incorrect ACL get/set allowed on symlink path (CVE-2015-7560). Out-of-bounds read in internal DNS server (CVE-2016-0771). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7560 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0771 (* Security fix *)
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Where Find New Packages
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating 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 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 14.1 package:
283cb2636dd815191a6830a7d2df253b samba-4.1.23-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
6dfd6cf806829e2949fd669f0e1ec209 samba-4.1.23-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
c49f34d0ece3b0c867d3ab64f0fa1eb1 n/samba-4.3.6-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
1b3db192c34b7e12ea656ecc2042438b n/samba-4.3.6-x86_64-1.txz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg samba-4.1.23-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Then, if Samba is running restart it: # /etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart
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