TITLE:
Samba Printer Change Notification Request Denial of Service
Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12397

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12397/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
Samba 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/1271/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Samba, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of
client printer change notification requests. This can be exploited to
crash smbd by sending a "FindNextPrintChangeNotify()" request without
first sending a "FindFirstPrintChangeNotify()" request.

The issue can reportedly be triggered by Windows XP SP2 clients.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.2.11.
http://www.samba.org/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/history/samba-2.2.11.html

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