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Slackware 15.0: SSA:2023-216-02 Moderate: Samba Security Issues

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Calendar Grey August 4, 2023
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Recent updates for samba have been rolled out for Slackware, tackling a variety of security vulnerabilities and improving overall system reliability.
New samba packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 15.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/samba-4.18.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. PLEASE NOTE: We are taking the unusual step of moving to the latest Samba branch because Windows has made changes that break Samba 4.15.x. The last 4.15.x will be retained in /pasture as a fallback. There may be some required configuration changes with this, but we've kept using MIT Kerberos to try to have the behavior change as little as possible. Upgrade carefully. This update fixes security issues: When winbind is used for NTLM authentication, a maliciously crafted request can trigger an out-of-bounds read in winbind and possibly crash it. SMB2 packet signing is not enforced if an admin configured "server signing = required" or for SMB2 connections to Domain Controllers where SMB2 packet signing is mandatory. An infinite loop bug in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight can be triggered by an unauthenticated attacker by issuing a

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution samba slackware infinite loop out-of-bounds read

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 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 144bd8d3c2f3deeac28f022e5cdcf285 samba-4.18.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: a79a128a1ce98e611d47a143a0883716 samba-4.18.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: be2cd7839cb224e9567436351034f649 n/samba-4.18.5-i586-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 86760d77f53cffe33ebc11578b67f09c n/samba-4.18.5-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution samba slackware infinite loop out-of-bounds read

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg samba-4.18.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Then, if Samba is running restart it: # /etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart

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