[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: cifs-utils-5.4-1.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-6257
2012-04-20 02:22:47
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Name        : cifs-utils
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 5.4
Release     : 1.fc17
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 updates the cifs-utils package to version 5.4, which contains a number of bugfixes and enhancements. Highlights include:


* mount.cifs now supports the -s option by passing "sloppy" to the kernel in the options string

* cifs.upcall now properly respects the domain_realm section in krb5.conf

* unprivileged users can no longer mount onto dirs into which they can't chdir (fixes CVE-2012-1586) 

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #807252 - CVE-2012-1586 samba, samba3x, cifs-utils: mount.cifs file existence disclosure vulnerability
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807252
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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.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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