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samba -- memory exhaustion DoS in smbd

Affected packages
3.0.1,1 <= ja-samba < 3.0.23,1
3.0.1,1 <= samba < 3.0.23,1

Details

VuXML ID b168ddea-105a-11db-ac96-000c6ec775d9
Discovery 2006-07-10
Entry 2006-07-10

The Samba Team reports:

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.

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References

CVE Name CVE-2006-3403
URL http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CAN-2006-3403.html

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