National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0453

Overview

Buffer overflow in the nss_winbind.so.1 library in Samba 3.0.21 through 3.0.23d, as used in the winbindd daemon on Solaris, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) gethostbyname and (2) getipnodebyname functions.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/14/2007)

Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect Linux versions of Samba.

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070205 [SAMBA-SECURITY] CVE-2007-0453: Buffer overrun in nss_winbind.so.1 on Solaris

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/459168/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 33098

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/33098

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1005

Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1005

External Source: XF

Name: samba-winbind-bo(32231)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/32231

External Source: TRUSTIX

Name: 2007-0007

Hyperlink:http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007

External Source: BID

Name: 22410

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22410

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070207 rPSA-2007-0026-1 samba samba-swat

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/459365/100/0/threaded

External Source: OPENPKG

Name: OpenPKG-SA-2007.012

Hyperlink:http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.012.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-0483

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/0483

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-0453.html

Hyperlink:http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-0453.html

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2007-038-01

Hyperlink:http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.476916

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017589

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017589

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24151

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24151

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24101

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24101

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24043

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24043