CVE-2004-0686

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-07-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Samba 2.2.x to 2.2.9, and 3.0.0 to 3.0.4, when the "mangling method = hash" option is enabled in smb.conf, has unknown impact and attack vectors.

Affected products

Samba: from 2.2.0 before 2.2.10; from 3.0.0 before 3.0.5 — fixed in 2.2.10, 3.0.5
Trustix Secure Linux: 1.5, 2.0, 2.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Samba 2.2.10, 3.0.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000851
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000854
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109051340810458&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109051533021376&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109052891507263&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109094272328981&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109785827607823&w=2
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101584-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57664-1
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200407-21.xml
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:071
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_22_samba.html

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