RHBA-2016:1248 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated Samba package that fixes bugs and adds enhancements is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.1 Update 3

Description

Samba is an implementation of the server message block (SMB) protocol. It
allows the networking of Microsoft Windows®, Linux, UNIX, and other
operating systems together, enabling access to Windows-based file and
printer shares. Samba's use of SMB allows it to appear as a Windows server
to Windows clients.

This update is a rebase to the latest upstream version of Samba 4.4,
which fixes a number of bugs and adds a number of enhancements. The most
important of these updates are:

• Earlier, joining an AD domain with Samba could fail with a password

mismatch error for accounts with expired passwords. This update ensures
that the correct error message is displayed so that users know their
password has expired and needs to be updated. (BZ#1306926)

• Samba now supports version 3.1.1 of the SMB protocol.
• The CTDB_LOGGING option has replaced the previous options CTDB_LOGFILE

and CTDB_SYSLOG.

• A new 'logging' option for smb.conf and several new logging backends

(systemd-journal and lttng) are now available.

• The 'change notify' and 'kernel change notify' options are now global

options rather than being specific to a share.

• SMB multi-channel has been added as a Technology Preview.

All users of Red Hat Gluster Storage with Samba are advised to upgrade to
this updated package.

Solution

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

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 3 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1306926 - SAMBA AD: Appropriate message to be given by net when AD user password is expired
• BZ - 1308825 - [FutureFeature] RHGS SMB support for Windows "previous versions" functionality
• BZ - 1315254 - [SMB] smbd core dumps are always truncated to 16M
• BZ - 1315688 - [RFE] Support SMB3 Multi-Channel [tech-preview]
• BZ - 1319646 - SMB: SMB crashes with AIO enabled on reads + vers=3.0
• BZ - 1320505 - [RHEL6] [RFE] Samba rebase to 4.4 + Samba libs update
• BZ - 1321512 - SMB : Installing samba-dc-4.4.0-1.el7rhgs.x86_64 on RHGS 3.1.3 fails with dependency on python-crypto package
• BZ - 1331763 - [GSS]winbind filles the messages with "Ticket expired" message after upgrade to "samba-winbind-4.2.11-2"

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal