CVE-2002-1318

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

exploit_multi/samba/nttrans rank 200

Samba 2.2.2 - 2.2.6 nttrans Buffer Overflow

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.2.7`
sid	Fixed	`2.2.7`
forky	Fixed	`2.2.7`
bullseye	Fixed	`2.2.7`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.2.7`

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2002-1318

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.