Samba Security Update for Slackware
Posted on: 06/19/2010 09:16 AM
New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, and 13.0 to fix a security issue
Here are the details from the Slackware 13.0 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/samba-3.2.15-i486-2_slack13.0.txz: Rebuilt. Patched a buffer overflow in smbd that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted field in a packet. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-2063 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+
Where to find the 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 (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you.