CVE-2004-0949

CVE-2004-0949 affects the Samba filesystem smbfs in Linux kernel 2.4/2.6, where smb_recv_trans2 fails to reassemble fragmented packets, allowing a remote attacker via the network to read arbitrary kernel information or to inflate a counter by replaying the first fragment. Public advisories (RHSA,...

CVE-2004-0949: Undefined Security Weakness

The smbrecvtrans2 function call in the samba filesystem smbfs in Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6 does not properly handle the re-assembly of fragmented packets correctly, which could allow remote samba servers to 1 read arbitrary kernel information or 2 raise a counter value to an arbitrary number by...