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CVE-2002-1318

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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.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1467

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/10683

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6210

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-266.html

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_045_samba.html

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-081.php

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/958321

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-200

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-023.shtml

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-019.shtml

http://us1.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.7.html

http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/53580

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103859045302448&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103801986818076&w=2

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000550

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-12-11

Updated: 2025-04-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.73412

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