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FreeBSD : samba -- memory exhaustion DoS in smbd (b168ddea-105a-11db-ac96-000c6ec775d9)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22018

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The Samba Team reports :

The smbd daemon maintains internal data structures used track active connections to file and printer shares. In certain circumstances an attacker may be able to continually increase the memory usage of an smbd process by issuing a large number of share connection requests.
This defect affects all Samba configurations.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2006-3403.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?867a552f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22018

File Name: freebsd_pkg_b168ddea105a11dbac96000c6ec775d9.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 7/11/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-samba, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:samba, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 7/10/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3403