National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2002-1318

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#958321

Name: VU#958321

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

External Source: BID

Name: 6210

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2002:266

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-200

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

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

External Source: XF

Name: samba-password-change-bo(10683)

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/10683

External Source: CONFIRM

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

Type: Advisory

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

External Source: SUSE

Name: SuSE-SA:2002:045

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

External Source: MANDRAKE

Name: MDKSA-2002:081

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

External Source: CIAC

Name: N-023

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

External Source: CIAC

Name: N-019

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

External Source: SUNALERT

Name: 53580

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

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20021129 [OpenPKG-SA-2002.012] OpenPKG Security Advisory (samba)

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=103859045302448&w=2

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20021121 GLSA: samba

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=103801986818076&w=2

External Source: CONECTIVA

Name: CLA-2002:550

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

External Source: SGI

Name: 20021204-01-I

Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20021204-01-I

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1467

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1467

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1467