[SCM] Samba Website Repository - branch master updated

Lars Müller lmuelle at samba.org
Mon Aug 22 12:19:47 MDT 2011


The branch, master has been updated
       via  e74f8af Make this news look like the 3.6 announcement
      from  86a766e Make the photos from sentence more simple

http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba-web.git;a=shortlog;h=master


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commit e74f8afbe54d2549539f599abbbe254a50f2b2f4
Author: Lars Müller <lars at samba.org>
Date:   Mon Aug 22 20:18:53 2011 +0200

    Make this news look like the 3.6 announcement

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Summary of changes:
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diff --git a/news/symlink_attack.html b/news/symlink_attack.html
index abe71fb..4b27b6d 100644
--- a/news/symlink_attack.html
+++ b/news/symlink_attack.html
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@
 <!--#include virtual="/samba/header_columns.html" -->
 
 
-<h4>5 February 2010</h4>
-    <p class="headline">Claimed Zero Day exploit in Samba</p>
+<h2>Claimed Zero Day exploit in Samba</h2>
+
+<p>February 5th 2010</p>
 
 <p>A user named "kcopedarookie" posted what they claim to be a video
 of a
@@ -17,17 +18,17 @@ in Samba</a> on youtube yesterday.</p>
 <p>The issue is actually a default insecure configuration
 in Samba.</p>
 
-<h5>Quick FAQ: What do I do !</h5>
+<h3>Quick FAQ: What do I do !</h3>
 
 <p>Set:</p>
 <pre>
   wide links = no
 </pre>
+<p></p>
 <p>in the [global] section of your smb.conf and restart
 smbd to eliminate this problem.</p>
-<p></p>
 
-<h5>Longer FAQ: The real issue</h5>
+<h3>Longer FAQ: The real issue</h3>
 
 <p>The problem comes from a combination of two features in Samba, each
 of which on their own are useful to Administrators, but in combination
@@ -47,12 +48,14 @@ inside an exported share which SMB/CIFS clients will follow.</p>
 	guest ok = yes
 </pre>
 
+<p></p>
 <p>The administrator could add a symlink:</p>
 
 <pre>
   $ ln -s /etc/passwd /tmp/passwd
 </pre>
 
+<p></p>
 <p>and SMB/CIFS clients would then see a file called "passwd" within
 the [tmp] share that could be read and would allow clients to read
 /etc/passwd.</p>


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