This update for Samba fixes the following security issues:
- CVE-2015-5330: Remote read memory exploit in LDB (bnc#958586) - CVE-2015-5252: Insufficient symlink verification (file access outside the share) (bnc#958582) - CVE-2015-5296: No man in the middle protection when forcing smb encryption on the client side (bnc#958584) - CVE-2015-5299: Currently the snapshot browsing is not secure thru windows previous version (shadow_copy2) (bnc#958583)
Non-security issues fixed:
- Prevent null pointer access in samlogon fallback when security credentials are null (bnc#949022) - Ensure samlogon fall-back requests are rerouted after kerberos failure (bnc#953382) - Ensure 'Your account is disabled' message is displayed when attempting to ssh into locked account (bnc#953382) - Address unrecoverable winbind failure: 'key length too large' (bnc#934299) - Take resource group sids into account when caching netsamlogon data (bnc#912457) - Fix lookup of groups with 'Local Domain' scope from Active Directory (bnc#948244) - dependency issue with samba-winbind (bnc#936909)