CVE-2004-0883 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2004-0883?

CVE-2004-0883 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Dec 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple vulnerabilities in the samba filesystem (smbfs) in Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6 allow remote samba servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or gain sensitive information from kernel memory via a samba server (1) returning more data than requested to the smb_proc_read function, (2) returning a data offset from outside the samba packet to the smb_proc_readX function, (3) sending a certain TRANS2 fragmented packet to the smb_receive_trans2 function, (4) sending a samba packet with a certain header size to the smb_proc_readX_data function, or (5) sending a certain packet based offset for the data in a packet to the smb_receive_trans2 function.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0883?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Fedora Core, Redhat Linux Advanced Workstation, Suse Suse Linux and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2004-0883?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2004-0883 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0883 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-8mv4-h4c9-8275.