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Bug 114995

Summary:	CAN-2004-0082 mksmbpasswd vulnerability
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	3.0	CC:	jfeeney
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Description Mark J. Cox 2004-02-05 10:00:20 UTC

The Samba security team have notified us of an issue that affects
3.0.0 and 3.0.1 versions of Samba.  If a users account is created
using the mksmbpasswd script then it is possible for Samba to
overwrite the users password with the contents of an uninitialized
buffer.  This might lead to a password that is easier to guess by an
attacker.

This issue affects the version of Samba shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 only.

This issue is embargoed until 2004Feb09

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2004-02-10 11:35:55 UTC

Removing embargo from bug.  RHSA-2004:064 in progress with 3.0.2
packages attached.

Comment 2 Mark J. Cox 2004-02-18 10:31:35 UTC

An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. 
This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen 
this bug report if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-064.html