National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2007-5398
Orirignal release date: 2007-11-16
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    Stack-based buffer overflow in the reply_netbios_packet function in nmbd/nmbd_packets.c in nmbd in Samba 3.0.0 through 3.0.26a, when operating as a WINS server, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted WINS Name Registration requests followed by a WINS Name Query request.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 9.3 (High)
    Range: network
    Authentication:
    Impact Type: avail,conf,int,sec_prot admin="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    Samba (Samba)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5398