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USN-314-1: samba vulnerability

13 July 2006

samba vulnerability

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Details

The Samba security team reported a Denial of Service vulnerability in
the handling of information about active connections. In certain
circumstances an attacker could continually increase the memory usage
of the smbd process by issuing a large number of share connection
requests. By draining all available memory, this could be exploited to
render the remote Samba server unusable.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 6.06
  • samba - 3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu 5.10
  • samba - 3.0.14a-6ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 5.04
  • samba - 3.0.10-1ubuntu3.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References