| Description: | Samba is a suite of programs used by machines to share files, printers, and other information.
A flaw was found in the way Samba handled file descriptors. If an attacker were able to open a large number of file descriptors on the Samba server, they could flip certain stack bits to "1" values, resulting in the Samba server (smbd) crashing. (CVE-2011-0719)
Red Hat would like to thank the Samba team for reporting this issue.
Users of Samba are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing this update, the smb service will be restarted automatically.
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