Security update for Samba (package samba)
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(Last modified: 18MAR2003)
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Package: samba
Release: 20030318
Obsoletes: none
root
privileges. This strongly recommended update fixes these problems.Samba would also handle long passwords incorrectly, resulting in a buffer overflow. For this reason this version also restricts the password length to a maximum of 128 characters.
Remember to update the package
samba-classic
as described in acticle "Security update for Samba (package samba-classic)" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/psdb/html/200e6de175ab5bb0464bfa94fb9346a9.html) or samba-ldap
as described in article "Security update for Samba (package samba-ldap)" (http://sdb.suse.de/en/psdb/html/105d6d20f33108cfb380c9edbb4852a0.html) (depending on your setup) as well.rpm -Fhv samba.rpm
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