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Slackware Security Advisory: Samba Command Injection and Memory Disclosure

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Calendar Grey October 15, 2025
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Samba packages for Slackware 15.0 address critical issues, including command injection and memory disclosure. Immediate upgrade is advised.
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: extra/samba-4.22.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz: Upgraded. This is a security release in order to address the following defects: Uninitialized memory disclosure via vfs_streams_xattr. Command injection via WINS server hook script. For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9640 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10230 https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2025-9640.html https://linuxsecurity.com (* Security fix *)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical samba slackware command injection uninitialized memory

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://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: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-15.0/extra/samba-4.22.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 15.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/extra/samba-4.22.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/samba-4.23.2-i686-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/samba-4.23.2-x86_64-1.txz

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 15.0 package: 6548134c2fdfeffa2b97ccee5b179c8b samba-4.22.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 15.0 package: 06c06ca36c65b5978794c0930adfe35e samba-4.22.5-x86_64-1_slack15.0.txz
Slackware -current package: 8185110fb6a33c05ad2276d39affbcef n/samba-4.23.2-i686-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: a0a9908a54b5262ec90cdd62cdcb0670 n/samba-4.23.2-x86_64-1.txz

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical samba slackware command injection uninitialized memory

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg samba-4.22.5-i586-1_slack15.0.txz Then, if Samba is running restart it: # /etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart