Samba 4.0.18 Available for Download

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                   Release Notes for Samba 4.0.18
                            May 27, 2014
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This is the latest stable release of Samba 4.0.

Please note that this bug fix release also addresses two minor security issues
without being a dedicated security release:

  o CVE-2014-0239: dns: Don't reply to replies (bug #10609).
  o CVE-2014-0178: Malformed FSCTL_SRV_ENUMERATE_SNAPSHOTS response
    (bug #10549).

For more details including security advisories and patches, please see

  http://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html


 Changes since 4.0.17:
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o   Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
    * BUG 10548: build: Fix ordering problems with lib-provided and internal
      RPATHs.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
    * BUG 10577: SMB1 wildcard unlink fail can leave a retry record on the open
      retry queue.
    * BUG 10564: Fix lock order violation and file lost.


o   Björn Baumbach <bb@sernet.de>
    * BUG 10239: s3-nmbd: Reset debug settings after reading config file.
    * BUG 10544: s3-lib/util: set_namearray reads across end of namelist
      string.
    * BUG 10556: lib-util: Rename memdup to smb_memdup and fix all callers.


o   Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
    * BUG 10609: CVE-2014-0239: dns: Don't reply to replies.


o   David Disseldorp <ddiss@samba.org>
    * BUG 10590: byteorder: Do not assume PowerPC is big-endian.


o   Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
    * BUG 10472: script/autobuild: Make use of
      '--with-perl-{arch,lib}-install-dir'.


o   Noel Power <nopower@suse.com>
    * BUG 10554: Fix read of deleted memory in reply_writeclose()'.


o   Jose A. Rivera <jarrpa@redhat.com>
    * BUG 10151: Extra ':' in msg for Waf Cross Compile Build System with
      Cross-answers command.
    * BUG 10348: Fix empty body in if-statement in continue_domain_open_lookup.


o   Christof Schmitt <christof.schmitt@us.ibm.com>
    * BUG 10549: CVE-2014-0178: Malformed FSCTL_SRV_ENUMERATE_SNAPSHOTS
      response.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn@samba.org>
    * BUG 10472: wafsamba: Fix the installation on FreeBSD.