[Samba] Upcoming Samba security release

[Rowland Penny]

On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 23:04 +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 10:02 +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
> > On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 22:55 +1300, Andrew Bartlett via samba wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > this is a heads-up that there will be Samba security updates
> > > on Tuesday, November 9. Please make sure that your Samba servers
> > > will be updated immediately after the release!
> > > 
> > > Impacted components:
> > > 
> > > * AD DC (CVSS 8.8, high)
> > > * AD Domain member (CVSS 8.1, high)
> > > * File server (CVSS 4.8 medium)
> > 
> > Is an AD Domain member what I call a Unix domain member ? Which can
> > be
> > used as a fileserver ? If so, what is a 'File server' ?
> 
> Any file server use case, eg running smbd, but given the higher
> scores
> for AD DC and AD Domain member, we mean a standalone file server.

Sorry for being a pain, but we should be precise, if you mean a
standalone server, say so. The same goes for 'AD Domain member',
Windows 10 can be an 'AD Domain member'.

Rowland

> 
> Andrew Bartlett
>