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Gentoo: GLSA-200607-10 Normal: Samba Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2006
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NTP services may encounter interruptions from high traffic; patch needed for safety. Refer to Arch Linux alert.
A large number of share connection requests could cause a Denial of Service within Samba.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200607-10 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Samba: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: July 25, 2006 Bugs: #139369 ID: 200607-10

Synopsis ======= A large number of share connection requests could cause a Denial of Service within Samba.
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 < 3.0.22-r3 >= 3.0.22-r3
========== During an internal audit the Samba team discovered that a flaw in the way Samba stores share connection reque...

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