Bug 405551 – <net-fs/samba-3.4.2 : Any Batched Request Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0870)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2012-02-24 10:33:56 UTC]

From secunia security advisory at $URL:

Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Samba, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in process.c when handling Any Batched (AndX) request packets and can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 3.4.0.


Solution
Update to version 3.4.0 or later or apply patch.

[Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo 2012-02-24 10:35:08 UTC]

@security:

ok to glsa for it?

[Comment 2 Tim Sammut (RETIRED) 2012-02-24 19:36:23 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> @security:
> 
> ok to glsa for it?

Yep. Added to existing GLSA request. Thanks.

[Comment 3 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2012-02-25 00:49:21 UTC]

CVE-2012-0870 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0870):
  Heap-based buffer overflow in process.c in smbd in Samba 3.0, as used in the
  file-sharing service on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet before 2.0.0.7971 and
  other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon
  crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a Batched (aka AndX) request
  that triggers infinite recursion.

[Comment 4 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2012-06-24 13:05:39 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201206-22 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201206-22.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).