On 4/12/12 10:04 AM, Robert Wyatt wrote: > My ISO (information security office) is requiring me (it says > "recommends" below--but that's not what they really mean) to update my > Samba installation on a MacOS 10.5 machine that I have. > > Currently fink offers Samba3 at version: 3.6.0. > > ------------------------------ > Steps for Remediation > ------------------------------ > > The ISO highly recommends that you update Samba. Versions 3.6.4, 3.5.14, and > 3.4.16 have been released to address this defect, and are available at > http://www.samba.org/samba/security/. In addition, due to the severity and > extreme risk posed by this flaw, Samba has also made patches available for all > versions currently out of support and maintenance from 3.0.37 onwards at > http://samba.org/samba/patches/. If you are using RedHat, RedHat has released > Samba version 3.5.10-115 to address this vulnerability. > > > My question: Has anyone tried a newer build yet on any of the active > trees? This machine is a PPC; I need to either update it or disable Samba. > > Thanks, > Robert > > ( Correcting Daniel J.'s address. :-) )
In case nobody else has tried that, it may be worth doing a local update of samba3 on your machine to build 3.6.4. It may just be a simple matter of changing the version and Source-MD5 (though I wouldn't count on it). -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/got-job/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
