[El-errata] ELSA-2012-0902 Low: Oracle Linux 6 cifs-utils security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Mon Jul 2 19:55:17 PDT 2012


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-0902

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0902.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
cifs-utils-4.8.1-10.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
cifs-utils-4.8.1-10.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/cifs-utils-4.8.1-10.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.8.1-10]
- mount.cifs: don't allow unprivileged users to mount onto dirs they 
can't chdir into (bz 812782)

[4.8.1-9]
- cifs.upcall: use krb5_sname_to_principal to construct principal name 
(bz 805490)

[4.8.1-8]
- mount.cifs: add backupuid=/backupgid= mount options (bz 806337)

[4.8.1-7]
- RFE: Improve selection of SPNs with cifs.upcall (bz 748757)
- mount.cifs does not use KRB5_CONFIG (bz 748756)
[creates additional entries in /etc/mtab (bz 770004)]
- mount.cifs does not honor the uid/gid=username option, only the 
uid/gid=# option (bz 796463)

[4.8.1-6]
- undocumented mount.cifs options (bz 769923)





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