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samba: denial of service

Package(s):samba CVE #(s):CVE-2012-0817
Created:February 9, 2012 Updated:February 15, 2012
Description:

From the Red Hat bugzilla entry:

A memory leak leading to denial of service (smbd crash) was found in the way smbd daemon of the Samba suite performed management of file descriptors related to socket connections. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause excessive CPU use, or, potentially denial of service via loop of incoming connections.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-1098 2012-02-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:0502-1 2012-04-14
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:0515-1 2012-04-17

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