Download Samba 3.5.4/3.3.13

Samba runs on Unix, BSD and Linux machines and is able to provide file and printer services according to the cifs protocol to Windows clients. For the documentation about the how and what of Samba you can take a look at this page† The developers have released two new versions in recent days with 3.5.4 and 3.3.13 as version numbers. The list of changes for these releases is as follows:

Release Notes for Samba 3.5.4

This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.5. Major enhancements in Samba 3.5.4 include:

• Fix smbd crash when sambaLMPassword and sambaNTPassword entries missing from ldap (bug #7448).
• Fix init_sam_from_ldap malfunctioning group in sid2uid cache (bug #7507).

Changes since 3.5.3:

• BUG 7507: Fix init_sam_from_ldap malfunctioning group in sid2uid cache.
• BUG 7188: Make ea data checks identical for trans2open and trans2mkdir.
• BUG 7410: Samba sends “raw” inode number as uniqueid with unix extensions.
• BUG 7449: Fix spnego returning incorrect mechListMIC string.
• BUG 7341: Fix Winbind over IPv6.
• BUG 7459: Fix some crash bugs and missing error codes in AddDriver paths.
• BUG 7479: Fix crash bug in _samr_QueryUserInfo{2} level 18.
• BUG 7517: Fix session setup from linux kernel cifs clients with “sec=ntlmv2”.
• BUG 7209: Fix build on RHEL5.
• BUG 7427: Using IBM xl_C compiler produces wrong results in configure.
• BUG 7503: Fix calculation of st_blocks in vfs_streams_xattr.
• BUG 7504: Fix numerous build issues.
• BUG 7253: Fix Samba login cache problem on Sparc Architecture.
• BUG 7262: Fix editing users’ groups via UsrMgr.
• BUG 7500: Fix ‘not a string literal’ warning in netdomjoin-gui.
• BUG 7099: Allow previous password to be stored and use it to check tickets.
• BUG 7423: Fix printing large formats.
• BUG 7448: Fix smbd crash when sambaLMPassword and sambaNTPassword entries missing from ldap.

Release Notes for Samba 3.3.13

This is a security release in order to address CVE-2010-2063.

• CVE-2010-2063: In Samba 3.3.x and below, a buffer overrun is possible in chain_reply code.