This Samba file server update fixes various security issues:
- CVE-2012-0870: A heap-based buffer overflow that
could be exploited by remote, unauthenticated attackers to
crash the smbd daemon or potentially execute arbitrary code
via specially crafted SMB AndX request packets.
- CVE-2011-2694: A cross site scripting problem in SWAT
was fixed.
- CVE-2011-0719: Fixed a possible denial of service
caused by memory corruption.
- CVE-2010-3069: Fix buffer overflow in sid_parse() to
correctly check the input lengths when reading a binary
representation of a Windows Security ID (SID).
- CVE-2010-2063: Addressed possible buffer overrun in
chain_reply code of pre-3.4 versions.
- CVE-2010-1642: An uninitialized variable read could
have caused an smbd crash.
- CVE-2010-0787: Take extra care that a mount point of
mount.cifs isn’t changed during mount;
Also the following bugs have been fixed:
- Add Provides samba-client-gplv2 and samba-doc-gplv2
to pre-3.2 versions; (bnc#652620).
- Initialize workgroup of nmblookup as empty string.
- Fix trusts with Windows 2008R2 DCs; (bnc#613459);
(bnc#599873); (bnc#592198); (bso#6697).
- Document "wide links" defaults to "no" in the
smb.conf man page for versions pre-3.4.6; (bnc#577868).
- Allow forced pw change even with min pw age;
(bnc#561894).