CVE-2015-0240
HIGHEPSS 100th pctlDescription
The Netlogon server implementation in smbd in Samba 3.5.x and 3.6.x before 3.6.25, 4.0.x before 4.0.25, 4.1.x before 4.1.17, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0rc5 performs a free operation on an uninitialized stack pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted Netlogon packets that use the ServerPasswordSet RPC API, as demonstrated by packets reaching the _netr_ServerPasswordSet function in rpc_server/netlogon/srv_netlog_nt.c.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 100% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0084.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00028.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00035.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00042.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00047.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00048.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142722696102151&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143039217203031&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0249.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0250.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0251.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0252.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0253.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0254.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0255.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0256.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0257.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-15.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3171
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:081
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:082
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72711
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031783
- http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2015&m=slackware-security.360345
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2508-1
- https://access.redhat.com/articles/1346913
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1191325
- https://securityblog.redhat.com/2015/02/23/samba-vulnerability-cve-2015-0240/
- https://support.lenovo.com/product_security/samba_remote_vuln
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/samba_remote_vuln
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36741/
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2015-0240
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