SAMBA Long Password Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:1816

Info

SAMBA Long Password Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1816
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Sep 25 1997 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 25 1997 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was posted to the BUGTRAQ mailing list on Thu Sep 25 1997 by [email protected].
Vulnerable: Samba Samba 1.9.19
+ Caldera OpenLinux 1.0
+ Caldera OpenLinux 1.0
+ Debian Linux 1.1
+ Debian Linux 1.1
+ Debian Linux 0.93
+ Debian Linux 0.93
+ Redhat Linux 4.x
- Slackware Linux 2.0
- Slackware Linux 2.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

SAMBA Long Password Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Samba is an open source software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Certain older versions of Samba had a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability was in the password function of the authentication mechanism which is to say a user could supply an overly long password to the Samba server and trigger a buffer overflow.

Exploit / POC

SAMBA Long Password Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

SAMBA Long Password Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
This issue was addressed in 1997, should your version of Samba contain this vulnerability it is suggested that you upgrade to the most recent version from:

http://www.samba.org

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SAMBA Long Password Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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