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Samba CVE-2000-0939: Denial of service via repeated GET requests

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Samba CVE-2000-0939: Denial of service via repeated GET requests

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/19/2000
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/30/2018
Modified
05/04/2018

Description

Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 2.0.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by repeatedly submitting a nonstandard URL in the GET HTTP request and forcing it to restart.

Solution(s)

  • samba-upgrade-2_0_8

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