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Secunia Advisory SA8533

Samba exploitable buffer overflow

Secunia Advisory

SA8533

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Release Date

2003-04-07

Last Update

2003-05-09

Popularity

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Criticality level

Highly critical

Impact

System access

Where

From local network

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Operating System

EnGarde Secure Community 1.x

Mandrake Corporate Server 2.x

Mandrake Linux 7.x

Mandrake Linux 8.x

Mandrake Linux 9.x

Mandrake Single Network Firewall 7.x

OpenLinux Workstation 3.x

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1

SuSE Linux Connectivity Server

SuSE Linux Database Server

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7

SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8

SuSE Linux Office Server

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2003-0201 CVSS available in Customer Area
CVE-2003-0196 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

Samba is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, which can be exploited by anonymous users.

The problem is that it is possible to cause a buffer overflow in the "call_trans2open()" function in "trans2.c". According to Digital Defense, this has been actively exploited since 1st April.

The vulnerability has been confirmed in versions from 2.2.5 to 2.2.8 on Solaris, FreeBSD, Red Hat, Gentoo, and SuSE.

Other unspecified buffer overflows has also been reported.

Solution
Upgrade to version 2.2.8a:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Erik Parker, Digital Defense

Original Advisory
http://www.digitaldefense.net/labs/advisories/DDI-1013.txt

Deep Links
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