Ubuntu
samba package

Memory leak in smbd

Bug #94681 reported by Kristaps Rāts
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samba
Fix Released
Low
samba (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Unassigned
Dapper
Won't Fix
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: samba

I've been hit by this: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3962 (smbd memory consumption when winXP spooler goes into a loop). The patches attached to the bugreport solved the problem, maybe they should be applied to dapper's samba 3.0.22?

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Changed in samba:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Łukasz Sznuk (lukatiks) wrote :

Exploiting this bug makes the smbd process eat up to whole available memory, which makes the machine crawl. In other words, it can be used for a DOS attack, and that's why I changed the 'security' setting on this bug.

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Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote :

I'm closing this bug for gutsy as upstream has fixed the bug in version 3.0.23b.

I've also nominated this bug for dapper.

Changed in samba:
status: New → Fix Released
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importance: Unknown → Low
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Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. dapper has reached EOL
(End of Life) and is no longer supported. As a result, this bug
against dapper is being marked "Won't Fix". Please see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases for currently supported Ubuntu
releases.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in samba (Ubuntu Dapper):
status: New → Won't Fix
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