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Debian DSA-280-1 : samba - buffer overflow

critical Nessus Plugin ID 15117

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Digital Defense, Inc. has alerted the Samba Team to a serious vulnerability in Samba, a LanManager-like file and printer server for Unix. This vulnerability can lead to an anonymous user gaining root access on a Samba serving system. An exploit for this problem is already circulating and in use.

Since the packages for potato are quite old it is likely that they contain more security-relevant bugs that we don't know of. You are therefore advised to upgrade your systems running Samba to woody soon.

Unofficial backported packages from the Samba maintainers for version 2.2.8 of Samba for woody are available at ~peloy and ~vorlon.

Solution

Upgrade the Samba packages immediately.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.3a-12.3.

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.7-5.1.

See Also

https://people.debian.org/~peloy/samba/

https://people.debian.org/~vorlon/samba/

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-280

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 15117

File Name: debian_DSA-280.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/7/2003

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Metasploit (Samba trans2open Overflow (Solaris SPARC))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0196, CVE-2003-0201

BID: 7294, 7295

CERT: 267873

DSA: 280