Samba Print Change Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Description:

Certain versions of Samba are vulnerable to a denial of service if out-of-sequence print change notify requests are receieved. Successful exploitation crashes the Samba daemon.

References:

• BID: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11055

• OSVDB: http://www.osvdb.org/displayvuln.php?osvdb_id=9362
  

Solution:

• Upgrade to Samba v2.2.11
  Download and apply the upgrade from: http://hostopia.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-2.2.11.tar.gz
• Upgrade to Samba 3.0.7
  Download and apply the upgrade from: http://us4.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-3.0.7.tar.gz
  

Information on these pages is summary information extracted from the NeXpose Vulnerabilty Assessment system. Full details are provided within the NeXpose product for licensed users.