[Pkg-samba-maint] Fix upstream #4308 in lenny?

Mathieu Parent math.parent at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 10:13:47 UTC 2010


Hello,

2010/2/3 Christian PERRIER <bubulle at debian.org>:
> I just upgraded one of ONERA major servers (ONERA is the company I
> work for) from etch to lenny and have been hit very hard by upstream
> #4308.
>
> In short, Excel messes up file ownership and ACLs when someone who's
> not the file owner writes the file back to the server.
>
> On our servers, that lead to very weird consequences that even
> included information potentially leaking to unauthorized persons
>
> I haven't confirmed this to be our only problem (we might be hit also
> by #6878) but it definitely seems worth fixing in lenny.
>
> Thoughts?

Fixing it for lenny would be good.

Also we hit #2346 (another Excel-specific bug) which was solved in
3.2.12, 3.3.5 and later.

(and also, we haven't yet migrated our samba servers to lenny)

Mathieu Parent



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