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samba -- multiple vulnerabilities

Affected packages
3.* < ja-samba < 3.0.25
3.*,1 < ja-samba < 3.0.25,1
3.* < samba < 3.0.25
3.*,1 < samba < 3.0.25,1

Details

VuXML ID 3546a833-03ea-11dc-a51d-0019b95d4f14
Discovery 2007-05-14
Entry 2007-05-16
Modified 2008-09-26

The Samba Team reports:

A bug in the local SID/Name translation routines may potentially result in a user being able to issue SMB/CIFS protocol operations as root.

When translating SIDs to/from names using Samba local list of user and group accounts, a logic error in the smbd daemon's internal security stack may result in a transition to the root user id rather than the non-root user. The user is then able to temporarily issue SMB/CIFS protocol operations as the root user. This window of opportunity may allow the attacker to establish additional means of gaining root access to the server.

Various bugs in Samba's NDR parsing can allow a user to send specially crafted MS-RPC requests that will overwrite the heap space with user defined data.

Unescaped user input parameters are passed as arguments to /bin/sh allowing for remote command execution.

This bug was originally reported against the anonymous calls to the SamrChangePassword() MS-RPC function in combination with the "username map script" smb.conf option (which is not enabled by default).

After further investigation by Samba developers, it was determined that the problem was much broader and impacts remote printer and file share management as well. The root cause is passing unfiltered user input provided via MS-RPC calls to /bin/sh when invoking externals scripts defined in smb.conf. However, unlike the "username map script" vulnerability, the remote file and printer management scripts require an authenticated user session.

References

CVE Name CVE-2007-2444
CVE Name CVE-2007-2446
CVE Name CVE-2007-2447
URL http://de5.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-2444.html
URL http://de5.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-2446.html
URL http://de5.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-2447.html