[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#948671: libsmbclient: mounting a share from Windows XP fails on timeout

[Горбешко Богдан]

#samba:freenode.net, sorry.

On 11.01.2020 18:24, Горбешко Богдан wrote:
> Package: libsmbclient
> Version: 2:4.11.3+dfsg-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> after an upgrade to smbclient=2:4.11.3+dfsg-1 (actually, some earlier 
> version
> is affected too) I lost an ability to mount a share from Windows XP 
> machine.
> Several clients that utilize libsmbclient (smbclient, Double Commander's
> "Windows Network" plugin, gio mount) hang for a while and fail on 
> timeout. So I
> had to roll smbclient back to 2:4.9.5+dfsg-5+deb10u1, as well as some 
> other
> dependencies, where it works well.
>
> I have already asked about it on #smbclient:freenode.net, and qman__ 
> told:
>
> Jan 01 01:44:25 <qman__>        there have been several breaking security
> patches to SMB both on windows and samba since Windows XP went EOL
> Jan 01 01:44:55 <qman__>        I would be more surprised if you could 
> get it
> to work
>
> But I couldn't see any CVE fixes in recent changelog that should 
> prevent SMB1
> from working at all, and the support for it doesn't seem to be removed 
> from
> libsmbclient yet, so it looks like an unintentional bug.
>
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: bullseye/sid
>   APT prefers testing-debug
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'oldoldstable-updates'), 
> (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
> Locale: LANG=ru_UA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_UA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
> LANGUAGE=ru_UA:ru (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
>
> Versions of packages libsmbclient depends on:
> ii  dpkg        1.19.7
> ii  libbsd0     0.10.0-1
> ii  libc6       2.29-7
> ii  libtalloc2  2.3.0-3
> ii  libtevent0  0.10.1-4
> hi  samba-libs  2:4.9.5+dfsg-5+deb10u1
>
> libsmbclient recommends no packages.
>
> libsmbclient suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information