Signature check for LOGOFF response

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Mar 24 16:23:51 UTC 2022


On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:04:30AM -0400, Tom Talpey wrote:
>On 3/23/2022 1:29 PM, Enzo Matsumiya wrote:
>>Hi Tom,
>>
>>On 03/19, Tom Talpey wrote:
>>>What server is returning this unsigned response? Assuming it's Windows,
>>>that is either a doc bug or (arguably) a server bug, and should be
>>>reported before deciding how to address it here.
>>
>>It's a NetApp ONTAP 9.5P13. We've identified it's also setting wrong
>>signatures on READ responses with STATUS_END_OF_FILE.
>>
>>Our tests against Windows Server 2019 showed it to behave ok, so it
>>looks like something on NetApp side.
>
>In this case I don't think it is appropriate to apply the suggested
>patch. Allowing unsigned or invalidly signed responses will greatly
>reduce security. I'll be interested if NetApp provides any information.

Welcome to our world :-). Doing:

git log|grep -i NetApp|wc -l

shows 32 instances (some are commit messages with NetApp in
them two or more times so the number is probably a little
smaller than 32) of commits in Samba especially to
deal with NetApp bugs :-).

That's a lot of client bugfixes :-).



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