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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-14
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: Samba: Remote printing vulnerability
Date: September 09, 2004
Bugs: #62476
ID: 200409-14

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Synopsis
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Samba is vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack due to out of sequence print change notification requests.



Background
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Samba is a freely available SMB/CIFS implementation which allows seamless interoperability of file and print services to other SMB/CIFS clients.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-fs/samba < 3.0.6 >= 3.0.6

Description
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Due to a bug in the printer_notify_info() function, authorized users could potentially crash the Samba server 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.

Impact
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A remote authorized user could potentially crash a Samba server after issuing these out of sequence requests.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Samba users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge sync

# emerge -pv ">=net-fs/samba-3.0.6"
# emerge ">=net-fs/samba-3.0.6"

References
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[ 1 ] Samba Release Notes
http://samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.6.html
[ 2 ] BugTraq Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/373619

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-14.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0