Vulnerabilities > CVE-2004-2546 - Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in Samba
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Multiple memory leaks in Samba before 3.0.6 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family | Misc. |
NASL id | SAMBA_3_0_6.NASL |
description | According to its banner, the version of Samba running on the remote host is earlier than 3.0.6. Such versions contain multiple memory leaks that can allow remote, unauthorized information disclosure and a remote denial of service attack. Note that Nessus has not actually tried to exploit this issue or determine if the issue has been fixed by a backported patch. |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 17721 |
published | 2011-11-18 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2011-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/17721 |
title | Samba < 3.0.6 Unspecified Remote Memory Leak Information Disclosure |
code |
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Statements
contributor | Mark J Cox |
lastmodified | 2006-08-30 |
organization | Red Hat |
statement | Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Samba as distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, or 4. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 shipped with a version of Samba prior to 3.0.6, but we verified by code audit that it is not affected by this issue. |