| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> |
| <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> |
| |
| <glsa id="200409-14"> |
| <title>Samba: Remote printing non-vulnerability</title> |
| <synopsis> |
| 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. |
| </synopsis> |
| <product type="ebuild">samba</product> |
| <announced>September 09, 2004</announced> |
| <revised>May 22, 2006: 03</revised> |
| <bug>62476</bug> |
| <access>remote</access> |
| <affected> |
| </affected> |
| <background> |
| <p> |
| Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows |
| seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS |
| clients. |
| </p> |
| </background> |
| <description> |
| <p> |
| Due to a bug in the printer_notify_info() function, authorized users |
| could potentially crash their smbd process by sending improperly |
| handled print change notification requests in an invalid order. Windows |
| XP SP2 clients can trigger this behavior by sending a |
| FindNextPrintChangeNotify() request before previously sending a |
| FindFirstPrintChangeNotify() request. |
| </p> |
| </description> |
| <impact type="low"> |
| <p> |
| We incorrectly thought that this bug could be exploited to deny service |
| to all Samba users. It is not the case, this bug has no security impact |
| whatsoever. Many thanks to Jerry Carter from the Samba team for |
| correcting our mistake. |
| </p> |
| </impact> |
| <workaround> |
| <p> |
| There is no need for a workaround. |
| </p> |
| </workaround> |
| <resolution> |
| <p> |
| Samba users can keep their current versions. |
| </p> |
| </resolution> |
| <references> |
| <uri link="http://samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.6.html">Samba Release Notes</uri> |
| <uri link="https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520">Samba Bug #1520</uri> |
| <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0829">CVE-2004-0829</uri> |
| </references> |
| <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Fri, 3 Sep 2004 20:09:15 +0000"> |
| jaervosz |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sat, 4 Sep 2004 18:44:38 +0000"> |
| lewk |
| </metadata> |
| <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 9 Sep 2004 04:56:22 +0000"> |
| jaervosz |
| </metadata> |
| </glsa> |