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| author | Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org> | 2009-09-28 13:39:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org> | 2009-09-28 13:39:23 +0200 |
| commit | f9d71be5013dd8903d39645b6a03332ae18646ed (patch) | |
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WHATSNEW: Prepare release notes for 3.3.8.
Karolin
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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index faf8f757f54..7a8784eb32e 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,4 +1,64 @@ ============================= + Release Notes for Samba 3.3.8 + September, 29 2009 + ============================= + + +This is a security release in order to address CVE-2009-2813 and CVE-2009-2948. + + o CVE-2009-2813: + In all versions of Samba later than 3.0.11, connecting to the home + share of a user will use the root of the filesystem + as the home directory if this user is misconfigured to have + an empty home directory in /etc/passwd. + + o CVE-2009-2948: + If mount.cifs is installed as a setuid program, a user can pass it a + credential or password path to which he or she does not have access and + then use the --verbose option to view the first line of that file. + All known Samba versions are affected. + + +###################################################################### +Changes +####### + +Changes since 3.3.7 +------------------- + + +o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> + * BUG 6763: Fix for CVE-2009-2813. + + +o Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> + * Fix for CVE-2009-2948. + + +###################################################################### +Reporting bugs & Development Discussion +####################################### + +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 3.3 product in the project's Bugzilla +database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/). + + +====================================================================== +== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility. +== The Samba Team +====================================================================== + + +Release notes for older releases follow: +---------------------------------------- + + ============================= Release Notes for Samba 3.3.7 July, 29 2009 ============================= @@ -72,8 +132,8 @@ database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/). ====================================================================== -Release notes for older releases follow: ----------------------------------------- +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + ============================= Release Notes for Samba 3.3.6 |