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Samba Mangling Method Hash Overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 13657

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Synopsis

It might be possible to run arbitrary code on the remote server.

Description

The remote Samba server, according to its version number, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow if the option 'mangling method' is set to 'hash' in smb.conf (which is not the case by default).

An attacker may exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary commands on the remote host.

Solution

Upgrade to Samba 2.2.10 or 3.0.5

See Also

http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-2.2.10.html

http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.5.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 13657

File Name: samba_mangling_overflow.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: remote

Published: 7/22/2004

Updated: 7/24/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:samba:samba

Required KB Items: SMB/NativeLanManager

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0686

BID: 10781