Samba Remote Procedure Call Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Last Update Date: 12 Apr 2012 10:37 Release Date: 12 Apr 2012 5466 Views

RISK: Medium Risk

TYPE: Servers - Other Servers

A vulnerability has been identified in Samba. A remote user can execute arbitrary code on the target system.

A remote user can send a specially crafted RPC call to trigger a buffer overflow in the Network Data Representation (NDR) marshalling code and execute arbitrary code on the target system. The code will run with root privileges.

Impact

Remote Code Execution

System / Technologies affected

Samba version 3.6.3 or before

Solutions

Before installation of the software, please visit the software manufacturer web-site for more details.

The vendor has issued a fix (3.6.4).
http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.4.html

Vulnerability Identifier

CVE-2012-1182

Source

SecurityTracker