CVE-2004-0930: Conectiva Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ms_fnmatch function in Samba 3.0.4 and 3.0.7 and possibly other versions allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a SAMBA request that contains multiple * (wildcard) characters.

Affected products

• Conectiva Linux: version 10.0 only
• Gentoo Linux: any version
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 2.1 only; version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 3.0 only
• Red Hat Fedora Core: version core_2.0 only; version core_3.0 only
• Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation: version 2.1 only
• Samba Samba: version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.0.5 only; version 3.0.6 only; version 3.0.7 only
• Sgi Samba: version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; version 3.0.5 only; …

Published 2005-01-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.