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Samba Multiple Share Connection Requests Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA20980
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Release Date:
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2006-07-11
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Last Update:
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2006-07-19
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Popularity:
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10,565 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From local network
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Samba 3.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-3403
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Samba, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling a lot of share connection requests. This can be exploited to cause smbd to exhaust memory resources via a large number of share connections.
The vulnerability has been reported in versions 3.0.1 through 3.0.22.
Solution:
Update to version 3.0.23.
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-3.0.23.tar.gz
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.
Changelog:
2006-07-19: Added link to US-CERT.
Original Advisory:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CAN-2006-3403.html
Other References:
US-CERT VU#313836:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/313836
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