CVE-2007-0452 Denial of service in n/a
Medium 6.8
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2007-0452 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2007-0452 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Samba Samba, published on 6 Feb 2007. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-0452 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Samba Samba. 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-2007-0452/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-0452/index.md)
Remote authenticated users can cause a denial of service in Samba by triggering an infinite loop during file renaming operations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2007-0452?
CVE-2007-0452 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Samba Samba, published on 6 Feb 2007. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
smbd in Samba 3.0.6 through 3.0.23d allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU exhaustion) by renaming a file in a way that prevents a request from being removed from the deferred open queue, which triggers an infinite loop.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-0452?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (40)
samba Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-client Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-swat Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::as | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-client Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-swat Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::desktop | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-client Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-swat Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::es | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-client Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba-swat Red Hat:enterprise_linux:3::ws | All versions | 0:3.0.9-1.3E.12 |
samba Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-client Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-swat Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::as | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-client Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-swat Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::desktop | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-client Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-swat Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::es | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-client Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
samba-swat Red Hat:enterprise_linux:4::ws | All versions | 0:3.0.10-1.4E.11 |
Products include Samba Samba.
How do I fix CVE-2007-0452?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2007-0452 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-0452 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Samba Samba
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2007-0452, GHSA-2wrx-698g-6hcq, RHSA-2007:0060, RHSA-2007:0061.