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Samba Security Descriptor Parsing Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA13453
Release Date: 2004-12-16
Last Update: 2004-12-20
Popularity: 16,684 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Samba 2.x
Samba 3.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-1154


Description:
iDEFENSE has reported a vulnerability in Samba, which can be exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow within smbd when handling security descriptors. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by requesting an extremely large amount of security descriptors.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code, but requires that the user has proper credentials to access a share.

The vulnerability affects versions 2.x and 3.0.x up to and including version 3.0.9.

Solution:
Apply patch for Samba 3.0.9:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/patches/security/samba-3.0.9-CAN-2004-1154.patch

Provided and/or discovered by:
Greg MacManus, iDEFENSE Labs.

Changelog:
2004-12-20: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.

Original Advisory:
Samba:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CAN-2004-1154.html

iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=165&type=vulnerabilities

Other References:
US-CERT VU#226184:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/226184


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