--- title: "CVE-2008-6800\n | Ubuntu" description: Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things. url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-6800?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # CVE-2008-6800 Publication date 7 May 2009 Last updated 4 August 2025 --- Ubuntu priority **Low** [Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority ) Toggle side navigation ## Description Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: None. Reason: this candidate is not a security issue. It was originally created based on one vendor's misinterpretation of an upstream changelog comment that referred to a race condition in the winbind daemon (aka winbindd) in Samba before 3.0.32. The upstream vendor states: "The Samba Team sees no way to exploit this race condition by a user of the system or an external attacker. In order to be able to trigger the race condition a privileged user (root) need to intentionally kill a winbind child process and carefully time the killing to trigger the race condition. Although, if the user is already privileged, it can more easily just kill the parent process directly." CVE concurs with the dispute. Notes: CVE users should not use this identifier ## Status Show unmaintained releases | Package | Ubuntu Release | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | samba | 9.04 jaunty | Ignored | | 8.10 intrepid | Ignored | | 8.04 LTS hardy | Ignored | | 6.06 LTS dapper | Ignored | --- * [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security) * [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses) ## References * [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-6800) * [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6800) * [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2008-6800) * [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-6800) ### Other references *