samba - Apr 2010 - ANNOUNCE: cifs-utils release 4.4 available for download

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This release is primarily bugfixes in mount.cifs:

- - acquire capabilities before a couple of operations

- - fix a segfault that could occur when parsing the address list

- - autoconf/automake problem that could cause compilation to fail

- - cleanup/overhaul of credential file parsing and help ensure that
  passwords aren't left in memory

webpage:    http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs-utils/
tarball:    ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/
git:        git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git
gitweb:     http://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git;a=summary

Detailed changelog:

commit b046d4196855294d57bf57a5b31fbfab41125d4b
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 28 07:13:17 2010 -0400

    mount.cifs: fix parsing of password in parse_username
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 6c917ebf360b3dbbc4c7ad9af3e106170528aa3c
Author: Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg at gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Apr 25 09:35:13 2010 -0400

    mount.cifs: continued cleanup of open_cred_file and zero out buffer
    
    The parsing for values has been moved to its own function and is a bit
    cleaner. Temporary buffers are zeroed out before being freed to ensure
    passwords/credentials aren't left in released memory.
    
    Signed-off-by: Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg at gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 605412558bc4b368ee656e75f80bc41d3966e1e5
Author: Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg at gmail.com>
Date:   Fri Apr 23 06:50:34 2010 -0400

    mount.cifs: clean up credential file parsing
    
    Remove magic numbers, redundant code and extra variables from
open_cred_file().
    Remove check for domain length since strlcpy is safe from buffer overflows.
    
    Signed-off-by: Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg at gmail.com>

commit 72dd35b2ed2fd17e8ce2b03607c9ac942d96ff5d
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Sat Apr 17 06:21:02 2010 -0400

    mount.cifs: remove unneeded newline in verbose output
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 1876123958c3afd44becce0427755257ddf87db9
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Wed Apr 14 14:11:37 2010 -0400

    mount.cifs: check for NULL pointer before calling strchr()
    
    mount.cifs calls strchr on currentaddress, which may be a NULL pointer.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 9eb040343a5917c08c80d43ef3123d796f88bf6e
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Tue Apr 13 10:18:13 2010 -0400

    automake: don't use @foo@ constructs in Makefile.am
    
    ...use $(foo) instead. That doesn't rely on an explicit AC_SUBST().
    
    Reported-by: Lars M?ller <lars at samba.org>
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

commit 310ae910b548e232cc86b34896bd7010c3b1cad2
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
Date:   Mon Apr 12 06:55:24 2010 -0400

    cifs: enable CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH before chdir() and realpath() calls
    
    It's possible that root won't have privileges to chdir or evaluate
the
    paths without that capability.
    
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>

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Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>
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