Samba: Denial of Service vulnerability

Samba: Denial of Service vulnerability A large number of share connection requests could cause a Denial of Service within Samba. samba 2006-07-25 2006-07-25 139369 remote 3.0.22-r3 3.0.22-r3

Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients.

During an internal audit the Samba team discovered that a flaw in the way Samba stores share connection requests could lead to a Denial of Service.

By sending a large amount of share connection requests to a vulnerable Samba server, an attacker could cause a Denial of Service due to memory consumption.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Samba users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-fs/samba-3.0.22-r3"

CVE-2006-3403 koon DerCorny DerCorny