CVE-2014-0178

A flaw was found in the way Samba created responses for certain authenticated client requests when a shadow-copy VFS module was enabled. An attacker able to send an authenticated request could use this flaw to disclose limited portions of memory per each request.

This issue does not affect the version of samba as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This issue does not affect the version of samba3x as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the version of samba4 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having Low security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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