Exploiting this bug makes the smbd process eat up to whole available memory, which makes the machine crawl. In other words, it can be used for a DOS attack, and that's why I changed the 'security' setting on this bug.
** This bug has been flagged as a security issue -- Memory leak in smbd https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94681 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
