FreeBSD : samba -- potential remote DoS vulnerability (ba13dc13-340d-11d9-ac1b-000d614f7fad)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36259

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Karol Wiesek at iDEFENSE reports :

A remote attacker could cause an smbd process to consume abnormal amounts of system resources due to an input validation error when matching filenames containing wildcard characters.

Although samba.org classifies this as a DoS vulnerability, several members of the security community believe it may be exploitable for arbitrary code execution.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73701

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CAN-2004-0930.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?4f8e613e

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36259

File Name: freebsd_pkg_ba13dc13340d11d9ac1b000d614f7fad.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:samba, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 11/12/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/30/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0930