Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2012-205 |
Date Published: | 14 May 2012 |
Severity: | Critical |
Last Updated: | Friday 22 November, 2024 |
Source: | CVE-2012-0870 |
Protection Provided by: |
Security Gateway |
Who is Vulnerable? | Samba Team Samba prior to 3.4.0 |
Vulnerability Description | An infinite loop vulnerability has been reported in Samba. |
Vulnerability Details | The vulnerability is due to a boundary error while handling specially crafted AndX requests. Remote attackers could exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted AndX requests to the target service. Successful exploitation would allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on the affected service. |
This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
In order for the protection to be activated, update your product to the latest update. For information on how to update , go to SBP-2006-05, Protection tab and select the version of your choice.
SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: Windows SMB Protection Violation
Attack Information: Samba smbd Packets Infinite Loop Code Execution