Multiple Denial of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities in Samba Filesystem (smbfs) in Linux Kernel 2.4 and 2.6
CVE-2004-0883 · MEDIUM Severity
AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Multiple vulnerabilities in the samba filesystem (smbfs) in Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6 allow remote samba servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or gain sensitive information from kernel memory via a samba server (1) returning more data than requested to the smb_proc_read function, (2) returning a data offset from outside the samba packet to the smb_proc_readX function, (3) sending a certain TRANS2 fragmented packet to the smb_receive_trans2 function, (4) sending a samba packet with a certain header size to the smb_proc_readX_data function, or (5) sending a certain packet based offset for the data in a packet to the smb_receive_trans2 function.
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