Debian Security Advisory
DSA-374-1 libpam-smb -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 26 Aug 2003
- Affected Packages:
- libpam-smb
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8491.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0686. - More information:
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libpam-smb is a PAM authentication module which makes it possible to authenticate users against a password database managed by Samba or a Microsoft Windows server. If a long password is supplied, this can cause a buffer overflow which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process which invokes PAM services.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.6-1.1woody1.
The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain a libpam-smb package.
We recommend that you update your libpam-smb package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libp/libpam-smb/libpam-smb_1.1.6-1.1woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.