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Release Notes for Samba 3.0.27a
Nov 20, 2007
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Samba 3.0.27a is a bug fix release and is the current release
for production servers running the Samba 3.0 series.
Important fixes in 3.0.27a include:
o A crash bug regression experienced by smbfs clients caused
by the fix for CVE-2007-4572.
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Changes
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Changes since 3.0.27
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o Michael Adam
* BUG 4308: Add missing become_root/unbecome_root around calls of
add_aliases. Add same changes in create_token_from_username()
surrounding the call to getsampwsid().
* BUG 5083: Make solarisacl_sys_acl_get_fd() return a result when
there is one (thereby fixing a memleak).
* BUG 5023: Fix smbd's interaction with NFSv4 ACL compatible VFS
plugins such as GPFS and ZFS.
o Jeremy Allison
* BUG 4978: Ensure that DOS attributes are copied with folders.
* Fix bug where tdb lock call interrupted with an alarm sig would
not terminate and could lead to runaway smbd processes.
* Fix smbd crash bug which resulted from a regression in the patch
for CVE-2007-4572 patch.
* Prevent nmbd from adding non-initialized name to IP address
mappings to it's WINS database.
o Dmitry Butskoy
* Properly catch errors in the query_user() callback to avoid
generated struct passwd replies with zero length usernames.
o Gerald (Jerry) Carter
* Prevent segv in winbindd running on a DC using the "idmap
backend" syntax.
o Steve Langasek
* BUG 4781: Allow cleaning of /etc/mtab by canonicalizing mountpoint.
o Volker Lendecke
* BUG 4028: Fix message popup sent via "smbclient -M".
* BUG 4984: Filename unix_convert() fixes for WinNT 4.0 clients.
o Stefan Metzmacher
* Fix crash bug in pidl generated client code caused by
[in,out,unique] pointers.
* Fix crash bug in the group mapping code.
o Heinrich Mislik
* Fixes for AIX quota support.
o Tomasz Ostrowski
* BUG 4393: Prevent smbclient from dropping 0 bytes files from tar
archives.
o Simo Sorce
* Fixes for internal idmap domain list when "winbind trusted
domains only" is enabled.
* Fix 32/64-bit compatibility issues in the winbind request/response
structures.
o Martin Zielinski
* Error code path fix for get_mydnsdomname().
Please refer to the original Samba 3.0.27 Release Notes for more details regarding changes in previous releases.