[SAMBA] CVE-2008-1105 - Boundary failure when parsing SMB
responses
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Wed May 28 18:45:07 GMT 2008
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 06:07:32PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Gerald (Jerry) Carter (jerry at samba.org):
>
> > The time line is as follows:
> >
> > * May 15, 2008: Initial report to security at samba.org.
> > * May 15, 2008: First response from Samba developers confirming
> > the bug along with a proposed patch.
> > * May 28, 2008: Public security advisory made available.
>
> Please understand this as a constructive remark, but was there a reason
> to unveil the issue to "vendors" (including /me and Debian coworkers)
> as late as May 27th?
>
> For the previous security issues, a few months ago, the time we had to
> develop updates was slightly longer....which is pretty important for
> volunteers..:-)
>
> Of course, and again, no finger pointing here. I have a too deep
> respect for the work of the Samba Team and the great communication we
> have with you people...I know there is certainly a reason for the late
> unveil and would just like to hear about it.
This was discussed immediately it was reported on vendor-sec at lst.de.
Are you on that list ?
Jeremy.
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