CVE-2013-4408

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-4408  

Heap-based buffer overflow in the dcerpc_read_ncacn_packet_done function in librpc/rpc/dcerpc_util.c in winbindd in Samba 3.x before 3.6.22, 4.0.x before 4.0.13, and 4.1.x before 4.1.3 allows remote AD domain controllers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid fragment length in a DCE-RPC packet.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the dcerpc_read_ncacn_packet_done function in librpc/rpc/dcerpc_util.c in winbindd in Samba 3.x before 3.6.22, 4.0.x before 4.0.13, and 4.1.x before 4.1.3 allows remote AD domain controllers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid fragment length in a DCE-RPC packet.

Find out more about CVE-2013-4408 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of samba as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (samba) RHSA-2013:1806 2013-12-10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (samba4) RHSA-2013:1805 2013-12-09
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (samba3x) RHSA-2013:1806 2013-12-10
Red Hat Storage Server 2.1 (samba) RHSA-2014:0009 2014-01-06

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 samba Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 samba Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Samba project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Stefan Metzmacher and Michael Adam of SerNet as the original reporters of this issue.