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Debian not affected by Samba problems.

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 18, 1998

Following in the wake of the earlier report on Red Hat’s
Samba problems, Debian would like
us to mention that their Linux distribution is Not
affected by this.

Wichert Akkerman
writes:

There have been reports that some Linux distributions are
affected by a vulnerability in samba. There are two issues:

  • the wsmbconf program (which is still a prototype application
    not meant for general release) is unsafe. Debian does not
    distribute this program.
  • some distributions used a world-writable directory without a t
    bit. We use /var/tmp which does not suffer from this problem.

There is no need to upgrade your samba package.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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