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authorKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2010-03-08 20:52:56 +0100
committerKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2010-03-08 20:52:56 +0100
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WHATSNEW: Prepare release notes for Samba 3.4.7.
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=============================
Release Notes for Samba 3.4.7
- , 2010
+ March 8, 2010
=============================
-This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.4.
+This is a security release in order to address CVE-2010-0728.
-Major enhancements in Samba 3.4.7 include:
- o
+o CVE-2010-0728:
+ In Samba releases 3.5.0, 3.4.6 and 3.3.11, new code
+ was added to fix a problem with Linux asynchronous IO handling.
+ This code introduced a bad security flaw on Linux platforms if the
+ binaries were built on Linux platforms with libcap support.
+ The flaw caused all smbd processes to inherit CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE
+ capabilities, allowing all file system access to be allowed
+ even when permissions should have denied access.
-######################################################################
-Changes
-#######
-Changes since 3.4.6
+Changes since 3.5.0
-------------------
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * BUG 7222: Fix for CVE-2010-0728.
######################################################################