[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: cifs-utils-5.0-2.fc15
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-9831
2011-07-31 02:57:46
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Name : cifs-utils
Product : Fedora 15
Version : 5.0
Release : 2.fc15
URL : http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs-utils/
Summary : Utilities for mounting and managing CIFS mounts
Description :
The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely deployed
on Microsoft Windows machines. This package contains tools for mounting
shares on Linux using the SMB/CIFS protocol. The tools in this package
work in conjunction with support in the kernel to allow one to mount a
SMB/CIFS share onto a client and use it as if it were a standard Linux
file system.
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Update Information:
This is an update that fixes a problem with handling embedded newlines in share names or mountpoints.
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Jul 29 2011 Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> 5.0-2
- mount.cifs: fix check_newline retcode check (bz# 726717)
* Wed Jun 1 2011 Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> 5.0-1
- update to 5.0
* Mon May 16 2011 Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> 4.9-2
- mount.cifs: pass unadulterated device string to kernel (bz# 702664)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #726691 - CVE-2011-2724 samba, cifs-utils: mount.cifs incorrect fix for CVE-2010-0547
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726691
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update cifs-utils' at the command line.
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