Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-0829 - Unspecified vulnerability in Samba
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN samba
nessus
Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family Denial of Service NASL id SAMBA_FINDNEXTPRINTCHANGENOTIFY_DOS.NASL description The remote Samba server, according to its version number, is vulnerable to a denial of service. An attacker may be able to crash the remote samba server by sending a FindNextPrintChangeNotify() request without previously issuing a FindFirstPrintChangeNoticy() call. It is reported that Windows XP SP2 generates such requests. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 14381 published 2004-08-26 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2004-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/14381 title Samba smbd FindNextPrintChangeNotify() Request Remote DoS NASL family Gentoo Local Security Checks NASL id GENTOO_GLSA-200409-14.NASL description The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200409-14 (Samba: Remote printing vulnerability) 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 A remote authorized user could potentially crash a Samba server after issuing these out of sequence requests. Workaround There is no known workaround at this time. last seen 2016-09-26 modified 2011-05-28 plugin id 14695 published 2004-09-09 reporter Tenable source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=14695 title [GLSA-200409-14] Samba: Remote printing vulnerability
Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2006-08-30 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | We do not class this as a security issue; this can only cause a denial of service for the attacker. |