[Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.7, 3.4.12 and 3.3.15 Security Re leases Available

Robert Freeman-Day rmday at indiana.edu
Fri Mar 18 07:56:25 MDT 2011


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Bob,

A good thing I do is search the release history.  I do a google search
similar to this one:

"smb.conf changes" site:samba.org/samba/history

This, in combination with "testparm -sv"  Gives me a good idea of what
is up.

Thanks,
Robert

On 03/18/2011 09:27 AM, Hoover, Tony wrote:
>  
> When I upgrade a major revision (3.4.x -> 3.5.x ), I always get a listing
> from "testparm -v" before and after the upgrade to make sure that a
> parameter (that I didn't specify in the config) didn't change it's default
> setting.
> 
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> Tony Hoover, Network Administrator
> KSU - Salina, College of Technology and Aviation
> (785) 826-2660
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> From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]
> On Behalf Of Eckert, Robert D
> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:01 AM
> To: 'Jeremy Allison'; 'Chris Smith'
> Cc: 'samba at samba.org'; 'samba-announce at samba.org';
> 'samba-technical at samba.org'
> Subject: Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.7, 3.4.12 and 3.3.15 Security
> Releases Available
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Can I go directly from 3.4.7 to the new 3.5.8 without installing any
> intermediate versions? Or is there a different route I should follow?
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 
> -Bob
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-announce-bounces at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-announce-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Allison
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 11:37 AM
> To: Chris Smith
> Cc: samba at samba.org; samba-announce at samba.org; samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.5.7, 3.4.12 and 3.3.15 Security
> Releases Available
> 
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:15:23AM -0500, Chris Smith wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Karolin Seeger <kseeger at samba.org> wrote:
>>> Samba 3.5.7, 3.4.12 and 3.3.15 are security releases in order to 
>>> address CVE-2011-0719.
>>
>> Will there be a new 3.5.7 Jumbo Patch available for those using it 
>> with 3.5.6 and strict allocate? Or does the current 3.5.6 Jumbo Patch 
>> work fine with 3.5.7 (I'm assuming it's not included as there was no 
>> mention of any other fixes in the release notes)?
> 
> Both patches should work fine together. As per our policy, security fix
> releases contain no other changes than the security bugfix.
> 
> Just take the 3.5.7 release and apply the jumbo patch on top of it, as you
> did with 3.5.6.
> 
> A 3.5.8 will be released soon with all the pending patches we were planning
> the next release before it got preempted by the security fix.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Jeremy.
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