Samba 4.1.4 memory corruption bug

I was looking at my logs and noticed that smbd had crashed a few times since install. Searched the samba bug database and found this bug which was reporting the same issue. I have applied the patch supplied and updated the package – here’s how I patched and updated:

In your samba source folder, run this after downloading the patch to patch_memory_overwrite.patch:

patch -p1 < patch_memory_overwrite.patch

Build the changes

make

Now, remove the old samba package

sudo apt-get remove samba-4.1.4

Now, install the new one using checkinstall

checkinstall

and follow the same steps as before.

Edit 3/1/2014:  Samba 4.1.5 is now available with this fix among others.

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