There is a problem in the Samba file sharing service daemon, which allows a remote user to have the service consume lots of computing power and potentially crash the service by querying special wildcarded filenames.
Update to the released packages. The only workaround would be not to use Samba.
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
openSUSE | 9.2 | i586 | samba | <Â 3.0.7-5.2 | samba-3.0.7-5.2.i586.rpm |
openSUSE | 9.2 | x86_64 | samba | <Â 3.0.7-5.2 | samba-3.0.7-5.2.x86_64.rpm |
openSUSE | 9.1 | x86_64 | samba | <Â 3.0.4-1.34.3 | samba-3.0.4-1.34.3.x86_64.rpm |
openSUSE | 9.1 | i586 | samba | <Â 3.0.4-1.34.3 | samba-3.0.4-1.34.3.i586.rpm |