[security-alerts] FW: [SA20980] Samba Multiple Share Connection Requests Denial of Service

["Kazennov, Vladimir" <Vladimir.Kazennov@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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> TITLE:
> Samba Multiple Share Connection Requests Denial of Service
> 
> SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
> SA20980
> 
> VERIFY ADVISORY:
> http://secunia.com/advisories/20980/
> 
> CRITICAL:
> Less critical
> 
> IMPACT:
> DoS
> 
> WHERE:
> From local network
> 
> SOFTWARE:
> Samba 3.x
> http://secunia.com/product/2999/
> 
> DESCRIPTION:
> A vulnerability has been reported in Samba, which can be exploited by
> malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
> 
> The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling a lot of
> share connection requests. This can be exploited to cause smbd to
> exhaust memory resources via a large number of share connections.
> 
> The vulnerability has been reported in versions 3.0.1 through 3.0.22.
> 
> SOLUTION:
> Update to version 3.0.23.
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-3.0.23.tar.gz
> 
> PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
> Reported by the vendor.
> 
> ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CAN-2006-3403.html