CVE-2002-1318

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 51.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2002-12-11 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in samba 2.2.2 through 2.2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an encrypted password that causes the overflow during decryption in which a DOS codepage string is converted to a little-endian UCS2 unicode string.

Affected products

HP Cifs-9000 Server: a.01.08, a.01.08.01, a.01.09
Samba: 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5, 2.2.6
Sgi Irix: 6.5, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 6.5.5 (+13)

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000550
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103801986818076&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103859045302448&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=fsalert/53580
http://us1.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.7.html
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-019.shtml
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-023.shtml
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-023.shtml
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-023.shtml
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/n-023.shtml
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-200

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