I have setup 4 reproducer VMs. All running the base OS and installed only required packages for Samba. Here are the results:
SMBClient Xenial Yakkety Zesty Artful Link to root Y Y Y Y Link to directory Y Y Y Y Link to file N N N N * On Link to file via smbclient, error given is: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED opening remote file \opt\smb.conf Windows Xenial Yakkety Zesty Artful Link to root Y N N N Link to directory N N N N Link to file N N N N * On Link to root on Windows, the “N” gives error “The directory name is invalid” Version of Samba on each is: Xenial 4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.7 Yakkety 4.4.5+dfsg-2ubuntu5.6 Zesty 4.5.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.17.04.2 Artful 4.5.8+dfsg-2ubuntu3 Artful was daily iso downloaded from here on 6/28/2017: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/artful-server-amd64.iso MD5Sum: ad2f3ef5db99cf91a34903fa61a0c2f2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1701073 Title: CVE-2017-2619 regression breaks symlinks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/samba/+bug/1701073/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs