Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1110-1 samba -- missing input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 16 Jul 2006
- Affected Packages:
- samba
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3403.
- More information:
-
Gerald Carter discovered that the smbd daemon from Samba, a free implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol, imposes insufficient limits in the code to handle shared connections, which can be exploited to exhaust system memory by sending maliciously crafted requests, leading to denial of service.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.14a-3sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your samba package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-doc_3.0.14a-3sarge2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libpam-smbpass_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient-dev_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/python2.3-samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-common_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/samba-dbg_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/smbfs_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/swat_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/winbind_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/samba/libsmbclient_3.0.14a-3sarge2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.