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CVE-2014-0244

samba: nmbd denial of service

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · June 12, 2014

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the sys_recvfile() function of nmbd, the NetBIOS message block daemon, processed non-blocking sockets. An attacker could send a specially crafted packet that, when processed, would cause nmbd to enter an infinite loop and consume an excessive amount of CPU time.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 3.3
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified