CVE-2007-6015

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 27.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the send_mailslot function in nmbd in Samba 3.0.0 through 3.0.27a, when the "domain logons" option is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a GETDC mailslot request composed of a long GETDC string following an offset username in a SAMLOGON logon request.

Affected products

Samba: 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6 (+55)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200773
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307430
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Feb/msg00002.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000005.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120524782005154&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/27760
http://secunia.com/advisories/27894
http://secunia.com/advisories/27977
http://secunia.com/advisories/27993
http://secunia.com/advisories/27999
http://secunia.com/advisories/28003
http://secunia.com/advisories/28028

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