[Samba] [Announce] Samba 4.0.4 Security Release Available for Download

Karolin Seeger kseeger at samba.org
Tue Mar 19 04:04:14 MDT 2013


Release Announcements
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This is a security release in order to address CVE-2013-1863
(World-writeable files may be created in additional shares on a
Samba 4.0 AD DC).

o  CVE-2013-1863:
   Administrators of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory Domain
   Controller might unexpectedly find files created world-writeable
   if additional CIFS file shares are created on the AD DC.
   Samba versions 4.0.0rc6 - 4.0.3 (inclusive) are affected by this
   defect.


Changes since 4.0.3:
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o   Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
    * BUG 9709: CVE-2013-1863: Remove forced set of 'create mask' to 0777.

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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored.  All bug reports should
be filed under the Samba 4.0 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


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== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
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Download Details
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The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA).  The source code can be downloaded
from:

        http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/

The release notes are available online at:

	http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.0.4.html

Binary packages will be made available on a volunteer basis from

        http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/

Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/)

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team


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