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CVE-2002-1318: Samba: Buffer overflow

CVE-2002-1318 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Samba, along with 2 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

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.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

  • Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
  • Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
  • Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
  • Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
  • Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
  • Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

  • Samba: 2.2.2; 2.2.3; 2.2.4; 2.2.5; 2.2.6
  • Sgi Irix: 6.5; 6.5.1; 6.5.2; 6.5.3; 6.5.4; 6.5.5; 6.5.6; 6.5.7; 6.5.8; 6.5.9; 6.5.10; 6.5.11
  • HP Cifs 9000 Server: a.01.08; a.01.08.01; a.01.09

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