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samba: remote DoS vulnerability
| Package(s): | samba | CVE #(s): | CAN-2004-0930 CAN-2004-0882 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | November 8, 2004 | Updated: | December 1, 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | According to this Samba advisory a remote
attacker could cause an smbd process to consume abnormal amounts of system
resources due to an input validation error when matching filenames
containing wildcard characters. Versions of Samba 3.0.x up to and
including 3.0.7 are vulnerable.
There is also an advisory about possible buffer overruns in smbd. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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