CVE-2004-0930

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-01-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The ms_fnmatch function in Samba 3.0.4 and 3.0.7 and possibly other versions allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a SAMBA request that contains multiple * (wildcard) characters.

Affected products

Conectiva Linux: 10.0
gentoo Linux: all versions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 2.1, 3.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0
RedHat Fedora Core: core_2.0, core_3.0
RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation: 2.1
Samba: 3.0.0, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7
Sgi Samba: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+2)

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000899
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109993720717957&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110330519803655&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101783-1
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200411-21.xml
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=156&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=false
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:131
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_40_samba.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11624

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