>> Samba Share Connection Requests Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : Samba Share Connection Requests Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-2745 CVE ID : CVE-2006-3403
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-07-11
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Samba, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an error in smbd ["smbd/service.c"] when handling a large number of share connection requests, which could be exploited by attackers to exhaust all available memory resources, creating a denial of service condition.
