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.


 

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