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Vulnerability record · CVE-2006-3403 · published 12 July 2006

CVE-2006-3403: Samba vulnerability

Samba · Samba

The smdb daemon (smbd/service.c) in Samba 3.0.1 through 3.0.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of share connection requests.

5.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 5.6% · top 7.4%
5.0CVSS 2.0 base score
5.6%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
90References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

The smdb daemon (smbd/service.c) in Samba 3.0.1 through 3.0.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of share connection requests.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060703-01-U.asc
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20980 PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/20983 PatchVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/21018
http://secunia.com/advisories/21019
http://secunia.com/advisories/21046
http://secunia.com/advisories/21086
http://secunia.com/advisories/21143
http://secunia.com/advisories/21159
http://secunia.com/advisories/21187
http://secunia.com/advisories/21190
http://secunia.com/advisories/21262
http://secunia.com/advisories/22875
http://secunia.com/advisories/23155
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-10.xml
http://securitydot.net/xpl/exploits/vulnerabilities/articles/1175/exploit.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016459
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.416876
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1110
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/313836 US Government Resource
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:120
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_17_sr.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0591.html
http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CAN-2006-3403.html Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439757/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439875/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439880/100/100/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440767/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440836/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448957/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451404/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451417/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451426/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18927 Patch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-314-1
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html US Government Resource
http://www.vmware.com/download/esx/esx-202-200610-patch.html
http://www.vmware.com/download/esx/esx-213-200610-patch.html

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2006-3403), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.