[Samba] Applying security updates

[Logan Shaw]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Steve1 Boothright wrote:
> A security update for samba 3.0.1 - 3.0.22 was posted on samba.org on the
> 10th July. Does anyone know how to apply to update?
>
> Everytime I click on the download link I just get the following text
>
> Index: source/smbd/service.c
> ===================================================================
> --- source/smbd/service.c                (revision 16676)
> +++ source/smbd/service.c                (working copy)
> @@ -763,6 +763,11 @@
>                                 smb_panic("make_connection: PANIC ERROR.
> Called as nonroot\n");
>                 }
>
> +                if (conn_num_open() > 2047) {
> +                                *status =
> NT_STATUS_INSUFF_SERVER_RESOURCES;
> +                                return NULL;
> +                }
> +
>                 if(lp_security() != SEC_SHARE) {
>                                 vuser = get_valid_user_struct(vuid);
>                                 if (!vuser) {

That's a patch against the source.  Save it into a file, say
"samba-patch-2006-07-10", then "cd" to the directory that
contains "source", then type "patch < samba-patch-2006-07-10"
and the patch program should apply the changes to the file
source/smbd/service.c.  Then rebuild the binaries.

   - Logan