Samba DCE-RPC Packet Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
Samba 4.x
Samba 3.x
Description:
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CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2013-4408

Samba is a set of programs that implement the SMB (Server Messages Block) protocol, cross-platform file sharing and print sharing services.

Samba 3.4.0-3.4.17, 3.5.0-3.5.22, 3.6.0-3.6.21, 4.0.0-4.0.12, 4.1.2 handle DCE-RPC reports, winbindd background program has a boundary error, after successful exploitation can cause buffer overflow, to execute arbitrary code. To exploit this vulnerability, attackers need to execute man-in-the-middle attacks or control a related Active Directory domain controller.

<* Source: Stefan Metzmacher
Michael Adam

Link: http://secunia.com/advisories/55966/
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Samba
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://www.samba.org/samba/security/
Http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2013-4408

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