National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0080

Overview

** DISPUTED ** Buffer overflow in the SMB_Connect_Server function in FreeRadius 1.1.3 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary code related to the server desthost field of an SMB_Handle_Type instance. NOTE: the impact of this issue has been disputed by a reliable third party and the vendor, who states that exploitation is limited "only to local administrators who have write access to the server configuration files." CVE concurs with the dispute.

Description

A buffer overflow in the SMB_Connect_Server function in FreeRADIUS 1.1.4 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary code related to the server desthost field of an SMB_Handle_Type instance. This issue can not be exploited remotely, and can only be exploited by administrators who have write access to the server configuration files.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/05/2007)

Not vulnerable. The affected code is in an optional module that is not shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

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External Source: XF

Name: freeradius-smbconnectserver-bo(31248)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31248

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070102 FreeRadius 1.1.3 SMB_Handle_Type SMB_Connect_Server arbitrary code execution

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/455678/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070103 Re: FreeRadius 1.1.3 SMB_Handle_Type SMB_Connect_Server arbitrary code execution

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455812/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.freeradius.org/security.html

Hyperlink:http://www.freeradius.org/security.html

External Source: VIM

Name: 20070211 FreeRADIUS dispute of CVE-2007-0080

Hyperlink:http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2007-February/001304.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017463

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017463

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 32082

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/32082