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Samba Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Last Update Date: 26 Jun 2014 Release Date: 24 Jun 2014 3723 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Servers - Other Servers

TYPE: Other Servers

Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Samba, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

  1. An error in the "sys_recvfrom()" function (source3/lib/system.c) can be exploited to trigger an infinite loop within the nmbd daemon by sending a specially crafted NetBIOS packet.
  2. Some errors when handling Unicode file names can be exploited to cause out-of-bounds writes and subsequently crash the smbd daemon by issuing a non-Unicode read request for such files.

Impact

  • Denial of Service

System / Technologies affected

  • Versions prior to 4.1.9, prior to 4.0.19, and prior to 3.6.24.

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

  • The vendor has issued a fix (3.6.24, 4.0.19, 4.1.9).

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