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Samba smbd Memory Leak Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 1 Feb 2012 12:07 Release Date: 1 Feb 2012 4760 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Servers - Other Servers

TYPE: Other Servers

A vulnerability has been identified in Samba smbd, which can be exploited by remote attacker to cause a denial of service.   The vulnerability is caused due to memory leaks on every connection attempt to smbd daemon.  A remote user can attempt to connect to the target server multiple times to cause the target smbd daemon to consume excessive memory on the target system.


Impact

  • Denial of Service

System / Technologies affected

  • Samba versions 3.6.x

Solutions

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

  • Update to Samba version 3.6.3

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