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SUSE Linux Enterprise 12: Security Update for Samba Access Control Issue

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Calendar Grey March 18, 2016
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SUSE Security Update: Security update for samba ____________________________________________________
An update that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes An update that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes An update that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes is ...

Summary

This update for samba fixes the following issues: - CVE-2015-7560: Getting and setting Windows ACLs on symlinks can change permissions on link target. (bso#11648 bsc#968222) Also the following bugs were fixed: - Add quotes around path of update-apparmor-samba-profile; (bsc#962177). - Prevent access denied if the share path is "/"; (bso#11647); (bsc#960249). - Ensure samlogon fallback requests are rerouted after kerberos failure; (bsc#953382). - samba: winbind crash -> netlogon_creds_client_authenticator; (bsc#953972). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2016-477=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue access control important system update Samba SUSE Linux Enterprise

References

#953382 #953972 #960249 #962177 #968222

Cross- CVE-2015-7560

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7560.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/953382

https://bugzilla.suse.com/953972

https://bugzilla.suse.com/960249

https://bugzilla.suse.com/962177

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968222

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:0814-1
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue access control important system update Samba SUSE Linux Enterprise

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