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Gentoo: GLSA-200409-14 Normal: Samba Remote Printing Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey September 9, 2004
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Investigate the Samba remote print exploit affecting Gentoo Linux systems. Implement the latest updates immediately to prevent possible disruptions in service.
Samba is vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack due to out of sequence print change notification requests.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200409-14
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Samba: Remote printing vulnerability
      Date: September 09, 2004
      Bugs: #62476
        ID: 200409-14


Synopsis
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Samba is vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack due to out of
sequence print change notification requests.

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       < 3.0.6                               >= 3.0.6

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