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.
If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.
Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.
