8190 : Samba SWAT HTTP Basic Auth base64 Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
2	325	over 5 years ago	about 1 month ago	2 times	100%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Disclosure Date
2004-04-28	2004-07-22

Description

A remote overflow exists in Samba. The Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) fails to perform proper bounds checking when decoding base64 data during HTTP basic authentication resulting in a buffer overflow. With a specially crafted request, a remote attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.0.5 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Samba Project	Samba	3.0.4
		3.0.3
		3.0.2

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 12087 12130 12454
CVE ID: 2004-0600 (see also: NVD)
Milw0rm: 364
Exploit Database: 364
Related OSVDB ID: 8191
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-07/0249.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-07/0256.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-07/0258.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=000851
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/index.php?id=a&anuncio=000854
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200407-21.xml
http://www.netwosix.org/adv15.html
http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2004.033-samba.txt
http://www.suse.de/de/security/2004_22_samba.html
http://www.tinysofa.org/support/errata/2004/014.html
Other Advisory URL: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:071
http://www.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.5.html
http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0039/
Vendor URL: http://www.samba.org/
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2004:259-23

Tools & Filters

	13656 13658 13660 13838 14170 14554 18774
Snort	2597 2598

Credit

Evgeny Demidov - demidovgleg.net -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 10.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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