Latest Updates Break Samba on Dapper / Edgy

[Dana J. Laude]

NoOp wrote:
> On 11/16/2007 06:31 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> hi,
>> Am Freitag, den 16.11.2007, 08:01 -0600 schrieb Kenneth Loafman:
>>> Hopefully, the next update will fix this problem.
>> yup, thats reported as 
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/163042
>>
>> the package was disabled on the security server so should not come down
>> the drain for anybody now. would you mind to add the info about your
>> workaround to the bug so we avoid noise about that on the mailing list
>> and can just point users there ?
>>
>> ciao
>> 	oli
>>
> 
> It also affects Feisty & Gusty:
> 
> <quote>
> Jamie Strandboge  wrote 1 hours ago:  (permalink)
> 
> Turns out that upstream's fix for CVE-2007-4572 was incomplete and
> Feisty and Gutsy are also affected. As such, feisty and gutsy packages
> have been disabled. I have also linked to the upstream bug report.
> Updated packages without this patch will be provided for all releases.
> CVE-2007-4572 is a DoS but believed to not be exploitable.
> 
> When a proper fix is found, updated packages will be provided.
> </quote>
> 
> However, turning on my Gutsy machines as of a few minutes ago shows the
> updates as being available. I've not tried updating yet; should we
> disable those updates for the time being? And, if they were pulled, why
> are they still showing up in update manager?

Here it shows the following and won't grab the updates.
<snip>
The following packages will be upgraded:
   libsmbclient samba-common smbclient
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8606kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Err http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/main smbclient 
3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.1
   403 Forbidden
Err http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/main samba-common 
3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.1
   403 Forbidden
Err http://security.ubuntu.com gutsy-security/main libsmbclient 
3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.1
   403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch 
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.1_i386.deb 
  403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch 
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.1_i386.deb 
  403 Forbidden
Failed to fetch 
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.26a-1ubuntu2.1_i386.deb 
  403 Forbidden
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with 
--fix-missing?
</snip>

So, they are blocked at this time, until the fix is available.

Dana
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