Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.
http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2011-0719.html http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-0719 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/bfdbc7ec-9c3f-11e0-9bec-6c626dd55a41.html
Insight
The following packages are affected:
samba34
samba35
CVE-2011-0719
Samba 3.x before 3.3.15, 3.4.x before 3.4.12, and 3.5.x before 3.5.7 does not perform range checks for file descriptors before use of the FD_SET macro, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption, and infinite loop or daemon crash) by opening a large number of files, related to (1) Winbind or (2) smbd.
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2011-0719 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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