[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#479512: samba: locks up when cups server unresponsive

[Michal Suchanek]

Package: samba
Version: 1:3.0.28a-2
Severity: important


The samba server always tries to connect to a cups server, even when
there are no printing shares, and "load printers" is set to no.

When this server does not respond (as it drops the packets) samba blocks
indefinitely trying to connect to the server failing to open its
listening sockets at all.

This is serious usability, and possibly security bug. The server fails
when another service that is not even required for proper operation
fails.

Thanks

Michal


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages samba depends on:
ii  adduser               3.107              add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.21             Debian configuration management sy
ii  libacl1               2.2.45-1           Access control list shared library
ii  libattr1              1:2.4.41-1         Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                 2.7-10             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.40.8-2           common error description library
ii  libcupsys2            1.3.7-5            Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libgnutls26           2.2.2-1            the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap-2.4-2         2.4.7-6.2          OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam-modules        0.99.7.1-6         Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime        0.99.7.1-6         Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g              0.99.7.1-6         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpopt0              1.10-3             lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  logrotate             3.7.1-3            Log rotation utility
ii  lsb-base              3.2-11             Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  procps                1:3.2.7-8          /proc file system utilities
ii  samba-common          1:3.0.28a-2        Samba common files used by both th
ii  update-inetd          4.30               inetd configuration file updater
ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12  compression library - runtime

samba recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  samba/run_mode: daemons
  samba/generate_smbpasswd: false