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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Package: samba<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Version: 2:4.1.17+dfsg-2+deb8u2<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Severity: grave<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tags: security,fixed-upstream,wheezy,jessie,sid,experimental<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>(Severity listed as grave as the scope of the security issue is not yet public; it may be critical, and a lesser vulnerability level was not enumerated that reflects a potentially serious security issue.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The security vulnerability mentioned on samba.org (<a href="https://www.samba.org/samba/latest_news.html">https://www.samba.org/samba/latest_news.html</a> ) (links to <a href="http://badlock.org/">http://badlock.org/</a> ) will only be released for Samba versions in the 4.2 and higher releases; as Debian Stable (Jessie) presently has a 4.1.x release it will not receive this patch.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The severity and impact of not releasing an updated upstream version is unknown, and I am quite worried that there isn’t a backports version of the Samba packages to use a version that should (easily) have the security patch included.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>