Samba 3.x < 3.6.4 / 3.5.14 / 3.4.16 RPC Multiple Buffer Overflows

critical Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6443

Synopsis

The remote Samba server is affected multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

Description

According to its banner, the version of Samba 3.x running on the remote host is earlier than 3.6.4 / 3.5.14 / 3.4.16. It is, therefore, affected by multiple heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

An error in the DCE/RPC IDL (PIDL) compiler causes the RPC handling code it generates to contain multiple heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities. This generated code can allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to use malicious RPC calls to crash the application and possibly execute arbitrary code as the root user.

Solution

Either install the appropriate patch referenced in the project's advisory or upgrade to 3.4.16, 3.5.14, 3.6.4, or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 6443

Family: Samba

Published: 4/12/2012

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 58662

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:samba:samba

Patch Publication Date: 4/10/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2012

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Metasploit (Samba SetInformationPolicy AuditEventsInfo Heap Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1182

BID: 52973

Detections

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