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Samba Encrypted Password Buffer Overflow

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Samba Encrypted Password Buffer Overflow

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/11/2002
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/01/2004
Modified
11/13/2013

Description

Buffer overflow in samba 2.2.2 through 2.2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an encrypted password that causes the overflow during decryption in which a DOS codepage string is converted to a little-endian UCS2 unicode string.

Solution(s)

  • samba-upgrade-2_2_7

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