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Samba QFILEPATHINFO Buffer Overflow

Severity CVSS Published Added Modified
Critical (9) 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) Nov 15, 2004 Dec 20, 2004 Sep 21, 2007

Description:

The Samba smbd daemon included with 3.0.x up to and including 3.0.7. is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the handler for the QFILEPATHINFO request. This overflow can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the server.

References:

Solution:

Upgrade to Samba 3.0.8

Download and apply the upgrade from: http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-3.0.8.tar.gz



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