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SME Server 8.1 Release Notes |
Koozali SME Server 8.2 Release Notes |
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04 July 2013 |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
The Koozali SME Server (SME Server) development team is pleased to announce |
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SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9 |
the release of SME Server 8.2 beta2 which is based on CentOS 5.11 |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
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tracker (and only there, please); |
tracker (and only there, please); |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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You can download SME Server 8.2 beta2 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8.2.beta2/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server:Download |
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Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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About SME Server |
About SME Server |
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SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
SME Server is the leading Linux distribution for small and medium |
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enterprises. |
enterprises. SME Server is brought to you by Koozali Foundation, Inc., |
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a non-profit corporation that exists to provide marketing and legal support |
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for SME Server. |
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SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and |
SME Server is freely available under the GNU General Public License and |
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is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
is only possible through the efforts of the SME Server community. |
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However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
However, the availability and quality of SME Server is dependent on |
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meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
meeting our expenses, such as hosting costs, server hardware, etc. |
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As such, we ask for a small donation to offset costs and fund further |
As such, we ask for a donation to offset costs and fund further development. |
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a) If you are a school, a church, a non-profit organisation or an individual |
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using SME Server for private purposes, we would appreciate you to contribute |
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within your means toward the costs associated with hosting, maintenance and |
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development. |
development. |
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b) If you are a company or an integrator and you are deploying SME Server in |
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the course of your work to generate revenue, we expect you to make a donation |
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commensurate with the level of revenue you generate and the number of servers |
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your have in the field. Please, help the project |
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Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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Thanks and a plea for help |
Koozali Inc is happy to supply an invoice for any donations received, |
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simply email treasurer@koozali.org |
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Thanks |
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The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved |
The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved |
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themselves with this release. |
themselves with this release. |
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Notes |
Notes |
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1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.1 |
1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8.2 |
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will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
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means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
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AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors |
AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors |
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are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
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Athlon XP and later. |
Athlon XP and later. |
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2. Some notes on SME 8.1 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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2. Some notes on SME Server 8.2 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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3. Please note Upstream policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5. Only those |
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security updates deemed crucial are now being released upstream for EL5 |
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(so also for SME8) The Koozali team recommends that you start moving |
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workloads from SME Server 8 to SME Server 9. |
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Planned EOL for CentOS 5 is Mar 31 2017 |
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4. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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during this time you may experience problems. |
during this time you may experience problems. |
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You can download SME8.1 from |
You can download SME Server 8.2 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/ |
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8.2/iso/i386/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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Changes in this release |
Changes in this release |
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Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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not included. |
not included. |
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Backups |
Backups |
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- Workstation Backup allows the day of the week to be specified on which a full backup occurs. This now works correctly for all days of the week. |
- Add pkgconfig dar |
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- To increase reliability of backups to a Microsoft Vista drive, a one second delay was added to the backup. |
- New Upstream Version dar |
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- Allow user setting of compression level for Desktop and Console Backups. |
- Add requires nfs-utils |
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For example: config setprop backupconsole CompressionLevel -6 |
- The nfs service is neither started or allowed to start |
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The default is -6, where -1 is fastest and -9 is optimal compression. |
- Workstation Backup, do not create folder in / |
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- After a restore from the console the post-upgrade event was not being performed. |
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- Add support for Windows 8 domain joining & user login with a new registry file. |
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/server-resources/regedit/win8samba.reg |
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- New optional samba property smb{WideLinks}, valid values are 'no' or 'yes'. The current samba default is 'no'. |
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see http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKS |
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For example to enable samba Wide Links |
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# config setprop smb WideLinks yes |
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- Add windows network performance enhancements registry file that can help Windows slow logons. |
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/server-resources/regedit/windows_samba_performance.reg |
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- Two new optional samba properties smb{ServerMaxProtocol} & smb{ClientMaxProtocol}. |
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For example: # config setprop smb ServerMaxProtocol NT1 |
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- Remove the samba_audit specific logrotate configuration which was causing an email to be sent to the admin every night. |
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- Enable smb auditing per ibay, it is disabled by default. |
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Auditing is enabled via |
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# db accounts setprop ibayname Audit enabled |
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# signal-event ibay-modify ibayname |
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- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays |
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- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated |
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- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it does not handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. This caused FTP to fail when large numbers of local networks were configured. |
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LDAP (Optional in SME 8.1, and considered experimental) |
LDAP |
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- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled. |
- Make pdbedit output independent from locale and timezone so it can be |
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- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled. |
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- The ldap.init script which starts just after the ldap service waits for slapd to be to available. The logic to check if slapd is ready was corrected. |
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- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers. |
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- The ldap log files can take significant space on servers with a lot of users. This update will ensure old BDB log files are removed. |
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Localisation |
Localisation |
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*** NONE *** |
- apply locale 2015-03-14 patch from pootle |
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- apply locale 2014-12-25 patch from pootle |
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- apply locale 2014-03-08 patch from pootle |
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Mail Server |
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- Fetchmail multidrop mode follows TCPPort setting. |
- Updated to ClamAV release 0.98.6 |
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- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments. |
- Add BuildRequires for openssl-devel and libxml2-devel |
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- Allow smtp_auth_proxy to use port 587 with STARTTLS. |
- Remove Packager and Vendor from ClamAV spec file. |
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- Due to SMTP servers not handling SMTP Auth well enable the use of a blacklist to remove the troublesome methods. |
- Add new zip file signatures to default mailpatterns database : ZIPVOSX & |
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For example to remove CRAM-MD5: |
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# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist CRAM-MD5 |
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# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
- Use stunnel instead of sslio to support TLS |
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More than one method can be removed: |
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# db configuration setprop smtp-auth-proxy Blacklist "CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5" |
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# sv t /service/smtp-auth-proxy |
- Remove DENYSOFT on SPF softfail qpsmtpd |
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- imap-relocate-maildirs action was removed.It was no longer necessary and was sometimes very slow. |
- Increase MemLimit to 700M for clamav-0.98 |
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- The soft memory limits for pop3 and pop3s were increased. Two new optional database properties pop3{MemLimit} and pop3s{MemLimit} |
- Remove dnsbl.ahbl.org RBL List |
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# expand-template /var/service/pop3s/env/MEMLIMIT |
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# config setprop pop3 MemLimit 50000000 |
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# expand-template /var/service/pop3/env/MEMLIMIT |
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- New optional qmail property qmail{ConcurrencyLocal} and default for /var/qmail/control/concurrencylocal changed to 20. |
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For example to decrease the local concurrecny limit |
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# config setprop qmail ConcurrencyLocal 6 |
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- Modify domain style pseudonym pointing to user with dot in name. |
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- Accept messages with no body and no trailing \n after headers. |
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- Prevent email delivery failure with required updates for perl-Net-DNS and qpsmtpd. |
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- New optional spamassassin property spamassassin{MaxMessageSize} to allow for spamassassin qpsmtpd's plugin size limit to be changed. |
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# config setprop spamassassin MaxMessageSize 1500000 |
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- Make CipherSuite secure by default and tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2. |
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- Fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email. |
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- Add template to extend the functionality of SSL verified certificate to IMAP and SSMTP transactions |
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- Update ClamAV to release 0.97.8. |
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Server manager |
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- Do not load mod_ssl for httpd-admin as it is not needed and creates log noise. |
- Resync with upstream php53, which include |
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- If the browser used to access the server-manager used lower case for %escapes a blank screen would be shown. The server manager URL processing is now case-insensitive for %escapes. |
fileinfo: fix out-of-bounds read in elf note headers. CVE-2014-3710 |
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- Fix more uninitialized warnings in log (httpd/admin_error_log) from HTML.pm. |
xmlrpc: fix out-of-bounds read flaw in mkgmtime() CVE-2014-3668 |
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- Remove log noise (httpd/admin-error-log) when accessing the Create Starter Web panel in server-manager |
core: fix integer overflow in unserialize() CVE-2014-3669 |
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exif: fix heap corruption issue in exif_thumbnail() CVE-2014-3670 |
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Webmail and Groupware |
spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object |
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change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698 |
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spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670 |
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- If IMAP is disabled in the server manager email panel, IMAP will now listen to the loopback interface to allow webmail to function. |
gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm. |
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- Webmail no longer uses SSL over loopback interface. |
CVE-2014-2497 |
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fileinfo: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571 in |
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cdf_read_property_info. CVE-2014-3587 |
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core: fix incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049 DNS TXT |
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record parsing. CVE-2014-3597 |
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core: type confusion issue in phpinfo(). CVE-2014-4721 |
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date: fix heap-based buffer over-read in DateInterval. CVE-2013-6712 |
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core: fix heap-based buffer overflow in DNS TXT record parsing. |
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core: unserialize() SPL ArrayObject / SPLObjectStorage type |
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confusion flaw. CVE-2014-3515 |
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fileinfo: out-of-bounds memory access in fileinfo. CVE-2014-2270 |
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fileinfo: unrestricted recursion in handling of indirect type |
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rules. CVE-2014-1943 |
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fileinfo: out of bounds read in CDF parser. CVE-2012-1571 |
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fileinfo: cdf_check_stream_offset boundary check. CVE-2014-3479 |
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fileinfo: cdf_count_chain insufficient boundary check. CVE-2014-3480 |
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fileinfo: cdf_unpack_summary_info() excessive looping |
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DoS. CVE-2014-0237 |
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fileinfo: CDF property info parsing nelements infinite |
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Web Server |
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- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder. |
- Disable SSLv3 |
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- Change wording of Software Update button. |
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Other fixes and updates |
Other fixes and updates |
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- Use UTF-8 in the console. |
- When quiting the console app with unsaved changes set the default selected |
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- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB |
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- Fix warning in /var/log/messages by correctly initialising the relevant variable. The warning related to the HW Address of a NIC. |
- Add a verification in the console of number of pptp clients against ip |
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- user-modify-unix script could take many minutes, it has now been optimised to take only seconds |
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- The memory limit for pppoe was increased to 100Mb. |
- Add a verification in remoteaccess panel of number of pptp clients against |
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- On upgrading from SME Server 7 to SME Server 8 an email could be sent to the admin everyday due to a modified /etc/updatedb.conf file. This update ensures the correct /etc/updatedb.conf file. |
ip allowed in dhcpd |
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- Updated SME root server template as D-root changed its IPv4 address on the 3rd of January. |
- Reset primary ibay default type |
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- The console would crash when no value is entered as static gateway in servergateway(-private) mode. Improved error-checking in isValidIP() prevents this. |
- Add a migrate fragment to sanitize the host comment for illegal characters |
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- Use file locking to make sure that only one copy of the masq script is running at any particular time. |
in the server-manager. |
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- Add python-hashlib so we can read newer repodata signatures. |
Sanitize existing hostname records, Add a validator for the comment in the |
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- Point mirrorlist to mirrorlist.contribs.org |
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- Force SSL following ibays settings to the relevant domain |
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- Move mysql logging to multilog |
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- Add ssh-autoblock for external interface - patch by Chris Maltby |
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- Update to upstream version 2.3.4, which fixes CVE-2012-3478 and |
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- Updated rsync-protocol.patch to fix CVE-2012-2251, and to apply on top of |
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CVE-2012-3478 and CVE-2012-2252 fixes. |
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- Updated makefile.patch to preserve RPM CFLAGS. |
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- Added command-line-error.patch (from Debian), correcting error message |
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generated when insecure command line option is used (CVE-2012-3478 fix |
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- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild |
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- Add patch for rsync3 compat (#485946) |
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- Update smeserver-release for beta1 of SME Server 8.2 |
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- Set the check update frequency of smecontribs through the server-manager |
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- Add a default Yum db property for check4contribsupdates |
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- Added a check-update for the smecontribs repository |
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General features |
General features |
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- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates |
- Based on CentOS 5.11 and all available updates |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.16 2013/07/03 02:58:39 wellsi Exp $ |
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