Samba Web Administration Tool Base64 Decoder Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Samba Web Administration Tool Base64 Decoder Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

It has been reported that Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT) is affected by a base64 decoder buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly validate buffer boundaries when copying user-supplied input into a finite buffer.

Successful exploitation of this issue will allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected computer with the privileges of the affected process; Samba typically runs with superuser privileges.