[pca] samba patch from oracle.

[Jeff Wieland]

Paul B. Henson wrote:
> On 4/18/2012 8:14 AM, McGraw, Robert P wrote:
>
>> I submitted a SR to Oracle about this and they told me they were working
>> on a patch and they would let me know when it was ready.
>
> I have an open SR as well 8-/, currently with a follow-up date of 
> 4/30. Not that I expect an actual solution by then, based on past 
> performance I anticipate it taking 6-12 weeks or even longer to get a 
> patch.
>
> I asked how come all of the major Linux vendors had a patch available 
> within hours of the announcement, whereas with Oracle it took days to 
> even get them to realize there was an issue and say they would look 
> into it. No response on that. Don :)? Most likely the script kiddies 
> only have linux shell code for this, so hopefully the wide open 
> unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges bug doesn't 
> get exploited on my production servers while I'm sitting here 
> twiddling my thumbs. I'd run my own local samba rather than the Oracle 
> bundled one but it's such a royal pain in the ass to get samba 
> compiled under Solaris <sigh>.
>
> AFAIK there's still just one guy in Prague that works on samba.
>
> I wish one of the Illumos distributions was production ready.
>
>

I've been building Samba on Solaris since the Solaris 2.3 days...  It
isn't that hard...  Not nearly as bad as Pidgin or Seamonkey :-).

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