[Announce] Samba 4.1.11 and 4.0.21 Security Releases Available

Karolin Seeger kseeger at samba.org
Fri Aug 1 05:32:59 MDT 2014


Release Announcements
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Samba 4.1.11 and 4.0.21 have been issued as security releases in order
to address CVE-2014-3560 (Remote code execution in nmbd).

For more details, please see
  http://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html


o  CVE-2014-3560:
   All current versions of Samba 4.x.x are vulnerable to a remote code
   execution vulnerability in the nmbd NetBIOS name services daemon.

   A malicious browser can send packets that may overwrite the heap of
   the target nmbd NetBIOS name services daemon. It may be possible to
   use this to generate a remote code execution vulnerability as the
   superuser (root).


Changes:
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o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 10735: CVE-2014-3560: Fix unstrcpy macro length.


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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
be filed under the Samba correct product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


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== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
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Download Details
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The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA).  The source code can be downloaded
from:

        http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/

The release notes are available online at:

	http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.1.11.html
	http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.0.21.html

Binary packages will be made available on a volunteer basis from

        http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/

Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/)

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team


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