July 2006

ID: 00516
Ref: 497/2006
Date: 31 July 2006:14:44:48
Version: 1

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Title: Gentoo Linux Security Advisory: GLSA 200607-10 - Samba: Denial of Service vulnerability
Abstract: During an internal audit the Samba team discovered that a flaw in the way Samba stores share connection requests could lead to a Denial of Service.
Vendors affected: Gentoo
Operating systems affected: Gentoo
Applications affected: Gentoo

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Title
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory: GLSA 200607-10 - Samba: Denial of Service vulnerability

Detail
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During an internal audit the Samba team discovered that a flaw in the
way Samba stores share connection requests could lead to a Denial of
Service.


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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200607-10
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Severity: Normal
Title: Samba: Denial of Service vulnerability
Date: July 25, 2006
Bugs: #139369
ID: 200607-10

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Synopsis
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A large number of share connection requests could cause a Denial of
Service within Samba.

Background
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Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows
seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS
clients.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-fs/samba < 3.0.22-r3 >= 3.0.22-r3

Description
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During an internal audit the Samba team discovered that a flaw in the
way Samba stores share connection requests could lead to a Denial of
Service.

Impact
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By sending a large amount of share connection requests to a vulnerable
Samba server, an attacker could cause a Denial of Service due to memory
consumption.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Samba users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-fs/samba-3.0.22-r3"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2006-3403
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3403

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-10.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5