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Sun Solaris update for Samba
Secunia Advisory: SA8627
Release Date: 2003-04-21
Last Update: 2003-04-22
Popularity: 6,415 views

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

OS:Sun Solaris 9

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Sun has issued a patch for Solaris 9. This fixes an older vulnerability in samba, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable server.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the length checking code for password change requests from clients. A malicious user can exploit this by sending a request containing a specially crafted, encrypted password to a vulnerable system, which causes a buffer overflow, when the encrypted password is decrypted.

Successful exploitation can cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and potentially allow execution of arbitrary code on the system.

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