[Bug 314657] Re: smbd segfault in assert_uid

Keith Matthews keith.matthews at themegroup.com
Tue Mar 17 08:15:09 GMT 2009


Paul Dufresne wrote:
> I think I found:
> o   Andrew Tridgell 
>     * Avoid a race condition in glibc between AIO and setresuid().
>     * Become root for AIO operations.
> taken from the latest (3.0.34 samba changelog):
> 
> 
> This would explain why https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/341816
> say that Build the sernet samba packages from source (3.0.34):
> http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/old/src/debian/3.0.34 fix it. (sorry for not saying that before, I was searching where
> I did read that).
> http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.34.html
> 

Interesting, thanks for that Paul.

Not all of their conditions apply, we only have 4 clients that connect 
via SMB, but otherwise looks very similar.

I'll try upgrading (however I haven't seen the problem for a week or so 
now so don't expect quick results).


Keith


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