[Pkg-samba-maint] Situation of current samba security issues

[Nico Golde]

Hi,
* Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org> [2009-10-06 12:30]:
[...] 
> Stable
> ------
> Here lies the main problem.
> 
> Patches provided by upstream do *not* apply cleanly. They were created
> against samba 3.2.14 while we have 3.2.5 in lenny.
> 
> The problem lies in samba-3.2.14-CVE-2009-2948-2.patch
> 
> Its last chunk deal with a part of code in source/client/mount.cifs.c
> that was modified between 3.2.5 and 3.2.14. I have been unable to find
> a solution to this and I'll be very very likely missing the needed
> skills to do The Right Thing.
> 
> Steve Langasek being busy doing Ubuntu stuff hasn't got time to look
> into this and we're at this very moment left in the dark...and I don't
> like this..:-)

I will try to port it. Probably can't make it today but I'll 
do it tomorrow.

Cheers
Nico
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