Security Update: Samba

Another security update has been released for Slackware 14.0 and newer: samba. This single update fixed two security vulnerabilities at once:

• CVE-2013-4496: Samba versions 3.4.0 and above allow the administrator to implement locking out Samba accounts after a number of bad password attempts. However, all released versions of Samba did not implement this check for password changes, such as are available over multiple SAMR and RAP interfaces, allowing password guessing attacks. 

• CVE-2013-6442: Samba versions 4.0.0 and above have a flaw in the smbcacls command. If smbcacls is used with the "-C|--chown name" or "-G|--chgrp name" command options it will remove the existing ACL on the object being modified, leaving the file or directory unprotected.