RHBA-2009:1416 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated samba packages that resolve several issues are now available.

Description

Samba is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and other utilities.

This update upgrades Samba to upstream version 3.0.33, which contains a number of bug fixes and
enhancements over the previous version.

Notably, these updated samba packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

• due to the method in which the Microsoft Excel program saves files, in certain corner cases the

access control list (ACL) inheritance rules could have been interpreted in the wrong order, and the
owner of a file saved by Excel could have ended up losing access to that file. These updated
packages include an adjusted fix for this problem which fixes the ACL inheritance so that saving an
Excel file does not cause the owner to change. (BZ#481046)

• using smbclient to write files to a directory to which the user had permissions sufficient to

write but not read resulted, incorrectly, in an "access denied" error. With these updated packages,
smbclient correctly allows this operation. (BZ#497156)

• the "mount.cifs" utility reported an incorrect exit status upon exit. (BZ#465979)
• the VFS Recycle module's "touch" option did not work properly for non-administrator users. (BZ#470897)
• the pdbedit(8) man page incorrectly reported the existence of an invalid option. (BZ#457381)

All users of samba are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 457381 - pdbedit -G doesn't work
• BZ - 465979 - mount.cifs exits with incorrect error code
• BZ - 481046 - [RHEL5.3] Unable to remove inherited ACLs in Samba 3.0.32
• BZ - 485382 - Excessive samba 'Failed to create Administrators' errors with RID winbind backend
• BZ - 493728 - samba needs patch to make it so that POSIX opens work correctly

CVEs

(none)

References

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