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Gentoo: GLSA 200409-14:02 Low Severity: Samba Remote Denial Of Service

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This advisory incorrectly described Samba versions as being vulnerable to a remote denial of service

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory [ERRATA UPDATE]        GLSA 200409-14:02
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Low
     Title: Samba: Remote printing non-vulnerability
      Date: September 10, 2004
      Bugs: #62476
        ID: 200409-14:02


Errata
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This advisory incorrectly described Samba versions as being vulnerable
to a remote denial of service. After further verifications, it appearsthat a remote user can only deny service to himself, so this bug does
not induce any security issue at all. The corrected sections appear
below.

Synopsis
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Samba has a bug with out of sequence print change notification
requests, but it cannot be used to perform a remote denial of service
attack.

Affected packages
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There are no affected packages.

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Due to a bug in the printer_notify_info() function, authorized userscould potentially crash their smbd process by sending impro...
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