samba (SSA:2008-333-01)
Posted on: 11/29/2008 04:51 PM
New samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0, 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a possible security vulnerability involving the reading of uninitialized memory.
More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:
Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/samba-3.0.33-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to samba-3.0.33. This package fixes an important barrier against rogue clients reading from uninitialized memory (though no proof-of-concept is known to exist). For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4314 (* 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.