1018032 – (CVE-2013-4408) CVE-2013-4408 samba: Heap-based buffer overflow due to incorrect DCE-RPC fragment length field check

Bug 1018032 (CVE-2013-4408) - CVE-2013-4408 samba: Heap-based buffer overflow due to incorrect DCE-RPC fragment length field check

Summary: CVE-2013-4408 samba: Heap-based buffer overflow due to incorrect DCE-RPC frag...

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2013-4408
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	high
Severity:	high
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On:	1018033 1018034 1018035 1018036 1018037 1018038 1018039 1018040 1018041 1020116 1039454
Blocks:	1016554
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2013-10-11 04:06 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2023-05-12 12:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	13 users (show)
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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2014-01-06 19:10:54 UTC
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System	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1805	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: samba4 security update	2013-12-10 04:37:26 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1806	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: samba and samba3x security update	2013-12-10 05:17:45 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:0009	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: samba security update	2014-01-06 23:32:39 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-10-11 04:06:20 UTC

It was found that samba versions 3.4.0 and above was vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow flaw, in the client processing of DCE-RPC packets. This is due to incorrect checking of the DCE-RPC fragment length in the client code.

The DCE-RPC client code is part of the winbindd authentication and identity mapping daemon, which is commonly configured as part of many server installations (when joined to an Active Directory Domain). A malicious Active Directory Domain Controller or man-in-the-middle attacker impersonating an Active Directory Domain Controller could achieve root-level access by compromising the winbindd process.

As per upstream:

Samba server versions 3.4.0 - 3.4.17 and versions 3.5.0 - 3.5.22 are also vulnerable to a denial of service attack (server crash) due to a similar error in the server code of those versions.

Samba server versions 3.6.0 and above (including all 3.6.x versions, all 4.0.x versions and 4.1.0) are not vulnerable to this problem.

Upstream flaw bug:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10185

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-10-11 04:11:05 UTC

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Samba project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Stefan Metzmacher and Michael Adam of SerNet as the
original reporters of this issue.

Comment 9 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-09 05:51:19 UTC

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of samba as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Comment 10 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-09 05:52:07 UTC

Public via:

http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2013-4408

Comment 11 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-09 06:58:42 UTC

Created samba tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1039454]

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-09 23:38:05 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1805 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1805.html

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-10 00:18:33 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1806 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1806.html

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2014-01-06 18:34:22 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Storage 2.1

Via RHSA-2014:0009 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0009.html

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