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Samba 3.0.1 <= 3.0.22 DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2006-3403)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
2 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
Memory exhaustion DoS against smbd.
Insight
Insight
The smbd daemon maintains internal data structures used track active connections to file and printer shares. In certain circumstances an attacker may be able to continually increase the memory usage of an smbd process by issuing a large number of share connection requests. This defect affects all Samba configurations.
Affected Software
Affected Software
Samba versions 3.0.1 through 3.0.22.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
Apply the patch mentioned in the linked reference.