From: Karolin Seeger Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:52:56 +0000 (+0100) Subject: WHATSNEW: Prepare release notes for Samba 3.4.7. X-Git-Tag: samba-3.4.7~1 X-Git-Url: http://git.samba.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bdad63514f345a10774dade1746072312ed140c1;p=samba.git WHATSNEW: Prepare release notes for Samba 3.4.7. Karolin --- diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 28f1812a8a0..80589c77a75 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,23 +1,28 @@ ============================= Release Notes for Samba 3.4.7 - , 2010 + March 8, 2010 ============================= -This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.4. +This is a security release in order to address CVE-2010-0728. -Major enhancements in Samba 3.4.7 include: - o +o CVE-2010-0728: + In Samba releases 3.5.0, 3.4.6 and 3.3.11, new code + was added to fix a problem with Linux asynchronous IO handling. + This code introduced a bad security flaw on Linux platforms if the + binaries were built on Linux platforms with libcap support. + The flaw caused all smbd processes to inherit CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE + capabilities, allowing all file system access to be allowed + even when permissions should have denied access. -###################################################################### -Changes -####### -Changes since 3.4.6 +Changes since 3.5.0 ------------------- +o Jeremy Allison + * BUG 7222: Fix for CVE-2010-0728. ######################################################################