Download Samba 3.0.24

Samba runs on Unix, BSD and Linux based servers and is able to provide file and/or printer services to Windows clients via the CIFS protocol. For the documentation about the how and what of Samba you can take a look at this page. The developers have fixed a number of security issues with version 3.0.24 as the result. The announcement of this latest version looks like this:

This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version that production Samba servers should be running for all current bug fixes. Please read the changes in this section and for the original 3.0.23 release regarding new features and difference in behavior from previous releases.

Important issues addressed in 3.0.24 include fixes for the following security advisories:

• CVE-2007-0452 (Potential Denial of Service bug in smbd)
• CVE-2007-0453 (Buffer overrun in NSS host lookup Winbind NSS library on Solaris)
• CVE-2007-0454 (Format string bug in afsacl.so VFS plugin)

Important issues addressed in 3.0.23d include:

• Stability fixes for winbindd
• Portability fixes on FreeBSD and Solaris operating systems.