CVE-2004-1154

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the Samba daemon (smbd) in Samba 2.x and 3.0.x through 3.0.9 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Samba request with a large number of security descriptors that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

RedHat Fedora Core: core_2.0, core_3.0
Samba: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+34)
Suse Linux: 1.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0, 9.1, 9.2
Trustix Secure Linux: 2.0, 2.1, 2.2

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Mar/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/13453/
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101643-1
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-57730-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-701
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=165&type=vulnerabilities
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/226184
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_45_samba.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-020.html
http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CAN-2004-1154.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11973

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