Samba Encrypted Password String Conversion Decryption Overflow

critical Nessus Plugin ID 11168

Synopsis

Remote code can be executed on the remote server.

Description

The remote Samba server, according to its version number, is vulnerable to a bug in the length checking for encrypted password change requests from clients. A client could potentially send an encrypted password, which, when decrypted with the old hashed password could be used as a buffer overrun attack on the stack of smbd.

Solution

upgrade to Samba 2.2.7

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 11168

File Name: samba_unicode_overflow.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: remote

Family: Gain a shell remotely

Published: 11/25/2002

Updated: 7/27/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:samba:samba

Required KB Items: SMB/NativeLanManager

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/20/2002

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Samba 2.2.2 - 2.2.6 nttrans Buffer Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1318

BID: 6210

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