USN-314-1: samba vulnerability
13 July 2006
samba vulnerability
Releases
Details
The Samba security team reported a Denial of Service vulnerability in
the handling of information about active connections. In certain
circumstances an attacker could continually increase the memory usage
of the smbd process by issuing a large number of share connection
requests. By draining all available memory, this could be exploited to
render the remote Samba server unusable.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.06
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samba
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3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu 5.10
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samba
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3.0.14a-6ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 5.04
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samba
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3.0.10-1ubuntu3.1
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.