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2003 May 20
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smbd - wide links / possible buffer failure??
...ail seems to be lost?
Might be I am wrong, but it seems that the behavior of wide link option
has been changed since 2.2.7. So we have some problems on our large side
to upgrade to 2.2.8a. Here is what I found, but it may be not the
intention of samba developer!
There ist a new function called readlink_checkin smbd/vfs.c. In this
function is a pattern compare to guarantee that a symbolic link is not
ouside a share.So far - so good.
But in my opinion it would be better to check if the physical location
and not the logical path of the link to the destination. In case that
you have some necessary compa...