NOTE: Based on new information from the vendor, this is NOT a security issue and the advisory has therefore been revoked.

A vulnerability has been reported in Samba, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of client printer change notification requests. This can be exploited to crash smbd by sending a "FindNextPrintChangeNotify()" request without first sending a "FindFirstPrintChangeNotify()" request.

The issue can reportedly be triggered by Windows XP SP2 clients.

Solution
Update to version 2.2.11.
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Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://us1.samba.org/samba/history/samba-2.2.11.html

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