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Samba 2.2.2 - 2.2.6 nttrans Buffer Overflow

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Samba 2.2.2 - 2.2.6 nttrans Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
04/07/2003
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module attempts to exploit a buffer overflow vulnerability present in versions 2.2.2 through 2.2.6 of Samba. The Samba developers report this as: "Bug in the length checking for encrypted password change requests from clients." The bug was discovered and reported by the Debian Samba Maintainers.

Author(s)

  • hdm <x@hdm.io>

Platform

Linux

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/multi/samba/nttrans
msf exploit(nttrans) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(nttrans) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(nttrans) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(nttrans) > exploit

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