National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0883
Original release date:01/10/2005
Last revised:09/10/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#726198
Name: VU#726198
External Source: BID
Name: 11695
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2004:537
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FLSA:2336
External Source: XF
Name: linux-smbreceivetrans2-dos(18136)
External Source: XF
Name: linux-smbprocreadxdata-dos(18135)
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: linux-smb-response-dos(18134)
External Source: MISC
Name: http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/142004.html
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 13232
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20041118 [USN-30-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2004:505
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2004:504
External Source: MANDRAKE
Name: MDKSA-2005:022
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1082
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1070
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1069
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1067
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20338
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20202
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20163
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20162
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20041117 Advisory 14/2004: Linux 2.x smbfs multiple remote vulnerabilities