National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0829
Original release date:12/31/2004
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
smbd in Samba before 2.2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by sending a FindNextPrintChangeNotify request without a previous FindFirstPrintChangeNotify, as demonstrated by the SMB client in Windows XP SP2.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
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We do not class this as a security issue; this can only cause a denial of service for the attacker.
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External Source: XF
Name: samba-findnextprintchangenotify-dos(17138)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20040831 Samba FindNextPrintChangeNotify() Error Lets Remote Authenticated Users Crash smbd
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://samba.org/samba/history/samba-2.2.11.html
Type: Patch Information
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2004-0043
Type: Advisory
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200409-14
Type: Advisory