# CVE-2004-0807: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in Samba by sending malformed requests that trigger infinite loops and memory exhaustion.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 14 Sep 2004
- **Updated:** 8 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0807, GHSA-8w98-f339-9fh8

## What is CVE-2004-0807?

CVE-2004-0807 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Conectiva Linux, published on 14 Sep 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Samba 3.0.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and memory exhaustion) via certain malformed requests that cause new processes to be spawned and enter an infinite loop.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0807?

It affects 5 products.


Products: Conectiva Linux, Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux, Samba Samba, Sgi Samba, Suse Suse Linux.

## How do I fix CVE-2004-0807?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2004-0807 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0807 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Conectiva Linux

- [CVE-2005-3625](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-3625/): Denial of service in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2004-0882](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0882/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2004-0902](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0902/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2004-0903](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0903/): Memory corruption in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2004-0904](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0904/): Integer overflow in n/a (critical 10.0)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2004-0807 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2004-0807 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Conectiva Linux, published on 14 Sep 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0807 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Conectiva Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0807/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0807/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-0807
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0807
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2004-0807

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2004-0807/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.