# CVE-2004-0883: 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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2004-12-01 · Updated: 2024-08-08

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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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## References

- http://secunia.com/advisories/20163
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11695
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1082
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:022
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110072140811965&w=2
- https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2336
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10330
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18136
- http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/142004.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1070
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-537.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20162
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/726198
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1067
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1069
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18135
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-505.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18134
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20202
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-504.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110082989725345&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/13232/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20338

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