CVE-2008-6800 DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER.
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Check this codebase for CVE-2008-6800 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2008-6800 is a vulnerability, published on 7 May 2009.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-6800 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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-2008-6800/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-6800/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-6800?
CVE-2008-6800 is a vulnerability, published on 7 May 2009.
Official description
DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: None. Reason: this candidate is not a security issue. It was originally created based on one vendor's misinterpretation of an upstream changelog comment that referred to a race condition in the winbind daemon (aka winbindd) in Samba before 3.0.32. The upstream vendor states: "The Samba Team sees no way to exploit this race condition by a user of the system or an external attacker. In order to be able to trigger the race condition a privileged user (root) need to intentionally kill a winbind child process and carefully time the killing to trigger the race condition. Although, if the user is already privileged, it can more easily just kill the parent process directly." CVE concurs with the dispute. Notes: CVE users should not use this identifier
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-6800?
How do I fix CVE-2008-6800?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-6800 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2008-6800 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-6800 in the wild and no public exploit code.