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CVSSv2

CVE-1999-0182

Published: 30/09/1997 Updated: 09/09/2008
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 1000
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Samba has a buffer overflow which allows a remote malicious user to obtain root access by specifying a long password.

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Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1816/info Samba is an open source software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients Certain older versions of Samba had a remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability This vulnerability was in the password function of the authentication mechanism which is to say a use ...