Title: SAMBA Long Password Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Samba is an open source software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Certain older versions of Samba had a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability. This vulnerability was in the password function of the authentication mechanism which is to say a user could supply an overly long password to the Samba server and trigger a buffer overflow.
Affected Products:
- Caldera OpenLinux 1.0.0
- Debian Linux 0.93.0
- Debian Linux 1.1.0
- RedHat Linux 0.0.04.x
- Samba Samba 1.9.19
References:
- Samba: Samba Homepage
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