[Samba] Upcoming Samba security release

[Andrew Bartlett]

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.

Andrew Bartlett

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