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PHolder
May 25, 2017Aspirant
Any plans for Samba fix for CVE-2017-7494 ?
I posted elsewhere about this, but CVE-2017-7494 NEEDs to be patched on any device still in operation, and I think that includes the older, technically out of support models that I have 6 of. Wit...
- May 30, 2017
Legacy Sparc, x86 and ARM firmware is now available:
RAIDiator-4.1.16 (Sparc)
mdgm-ntgr
May 25, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
We've built firmware with the patch for CVE-2017-7494 for legacy models as well. Once they have undergone QA testing, I believe we plan to release those updates as well:
RAIDiator-4.1.16
RAIDiator-arm-5.3.13
RAIDiator-x86-4.2.31
As for SMB2 and SMB3, we're not updating to a newer samba series on the legacy models at this time so SMB2 support would remain experimental and remain disabled. The new firmware has the same samba version except with the patch so the netgearx at the end (where x is a number) would be incremented by one to reflect the change.
PHolder
Jun 20, 2017Aspirant
mdgm wrote:As for SMB2 and SMB3, we're not updating to a newer samba series on the legacy models at this time so SMB2 support would remain experimental and remain disabled. The new firmware has the same samba version except with the patch so the netgearx at the end (where x is a number) would be incremented by one to reflect the change.
I'm going to keep beating this dead horse until it upgrades to SMB2:
SMB1 was pretty much already marked as deprecated when ReadyNAS was shipping the NV series as new devices... and in a couple of months people who have one still working will find new installs of Windows won't be able to even access it... It seems like the better customer service story would be a recompile and test cycle that adds the necessary SMB 2 (or even SMB 3) support since we already know it works well in Netgear's other products.
- StephenBJun 20, 2017Guru
PHolder wrote:
It seems like the better customer service story would be a recompile ...It would be a lot more work than that. They'd need to back-port to the much older linux kernel. Memory is another potential obstace (only 256 MB in the v1).
Of course we'd all love it if they did it.
- cathcamJun 28, 2017Guide
Don't forget running all the tests to make sure the fix doesn't break anything. Testing is the most important aspect of supporting older systems, especially in memory constrained systems.
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