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Gentoo: 200411-21 Normal: Samba Input Flaw Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey November 11, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Uncover the Gentoo bulletin GLSA 202306-12: Samba vulnerability could cause service interruption. Immediate update advised.
An input validation flaw in Samba may allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service by excessive consumption of CPU cycles.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-21 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Samba: Remote Denial of Service Date: November 11, 2004 Bugs: #70429 ID: 200411-21

Synopsis ======= An input validation flaw in Samba may allow a remote attacker to cause a Denial of Service by excessive consumption of CPU cycles.
Background ========= Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-fs/samba < 3.0.8 >= 3.0.8 < 3.0
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