[Samba] [SECURITY] Samba 3.0.1 - 3.0.22: memory exhaustion DoSagainst smbd

[Guillermo Gutierrez]

(Blond-moment question) I take it then, that this bug doesn't apply to
version 3.0.23?

- Guillermo

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From: samba-bounces+ggutierrez=marketscan.com at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-bounces+ggutierrez=marketscan.com at lists.samba.org] On
Behalf Of Gerald (Jerry) Carter
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 1:21 PM
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: [Samba] [SECURITY] Samba 3.0.1 - 3.0.22: memory exhaustion
DoSagainst smbd

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== Subject:     Memory exhaustion DoS against smbd
== CVE ID#:     CAN-2006-1059
==
== Versions:    Samba Samba 3.0.1 - 3.0.22 (inclusive)
==
== Summary:     smbd may allow internal structures
==              maintaining state for share connections
==              to grow unbounded.
==
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Description
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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.



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Patch Availability
==================

A patch for Samba 3.0.1 - 3.0.22 has been posted at
http://www.samba.org/samba/security/.

Guidelines for securing Samba hosts are listed at
http://www.samba.org/docs/server_security.html


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Credits
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This security issue discovered during an internal security audit of the
Samba source code by the Samba Team.


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== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
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