[Announce] Samba 3.0.35 Security Release Available for Download

Karolin Seeger kseeger at samba.org
Mon Jun 29 06:15:02 MDT 2009


Hi Alexander,

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:51:42PM +0400, Alexander wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Karolin Seeger <kseeger at samba.org> wrote:
> 
>     Release Announcements
>     =====================
> 
>     This is a security release in order to address CVE-2009-1888.
> 
>       o CVE-2009-1888:
>         In Samba 3.0.31 to 3.3.5 (inclusive), an uninitialized read of a
>         data value can potentially affect access control when "dos filemode"
>         is set to "yes".
> 
> 
>  Hello Samba team,
> 
> Just wanted to clarify - do I understand it correctly that pre-3.0.31 versions
> are not affected by this?
> I believe yes and checking the source for that function in older releases
> (looked at 3.0.20, 3.0.28 and 3.0.30) shows no "sbuf" structure allocation that
> appeared in 3.0.31 and is initialized properly with a patch now, but could you
> please confirm that?
> 
> (looks like my first message to samba-technical at lists.samba.org didn't get
> through, apologize if that would be double-post)

yes, that's correct. This issue was introduced with 3.0.31.

Cheers,
Karolin

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