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samba: memory exhaustion

Package(s):samba CVE #(s):CVE-2006-3403
Created:July 11, 2006 Updated:July 26, 2006
Description: 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, according to this advisory.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200607-10 2006-07-25
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0591-01 2006-07-25
SuSE SUSE-SR:2006:017 2006-07-21
Slackware SSA:2006-200-01 2006-07-19
Debian DSA-1110-1 2006-07-16
Slackware SSA:2006-195-01 2006-07-17
Fedora FEDORA-2006-808 2006-07-14
Fedora FEDORA-2006-807 2006-07-14
Ubuntu USN-314-1 2006-07-12
rPath rPSA-2006-0128-1 2006-07-11
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:120 2006-07-10
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