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CVE-2013-4124

medium
Published 2013-08-06 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

Integer overflow in the read_nttrans_ea_list function in nttrans.c in smbd in Samba 3.x before 3.5.22, 3.6.x before 3.6.17, and 4.x before 4.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a malformed packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_dos/samba/read_nttrans_ea_list rank 300
Samba read_nttrans_ea_list Integer Overflow
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu13.04affected
redhat rhel5affected
fedora fedora18affected
fedora fedora19affected
suse suse12.2affected
suse suse12.3affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:3.6.17-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:3.6.17-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:3.6.17-1
debian debiansidfixed2:3.6.17-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:3.6.17-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
sambasamba3.0.0
sambasamba3.0.1
sambasamba3.0.2
sambasamba3.0.2a
sambasamba3.0.3
sambasamba3.0.4
sambasamba3.0.5
sambasamba3.0.6
sambasamba3.0.7
sambasamba3.0.8
sambasamba3.0.9
sambasamba3.0.10
sambasamba3.0.11
sambasamba3.0.12
sambasamba3.0.13
sambasamba3.0.14
sambasamba3.0.14a
sambasamba3.0.15
sambasamba3.0.16
sambasamba3.0.17
sambasamba3.0.18
sambasamba3.0.19
sambasamba3.0.20
sambasamba3.0.20a
sambasamba3.0.20b
sambasamba3.0.21
sambasamba3.0.21a
sambasamba3.0.21b
sambasamba3.0.21c
sambasamba3.0.22
sambasamba3.0.23
sambasamba3.0.23a
sambasamba3.0.23b
sambasamba3.0.23c
sambasamba3.0.23d
sambasamba3.0.24
sambasamba3.0.25
sambasamba3.0.25a
sambasamba3.0.25b
sambasamba3.0.25c
sambasamba3.0.26
sambasamba3.0.26a
sambasamba3.0.27
sambasamba3.0.28
sambasamba3.0.29
sambasamba3.0.30
sambasamba3.0.31
sambasamba3.0.32
sambasamba3.0.33
sambasamba3.0.34
sambasamba3.0.35
sambasamba3.0.36
sambasamba3.0.37
sambasamba3.1.0
sambasamba3.2.0
sambasamba3.2.1
sambasamba3.2.2
sambasamba3.2.3
sambasamba3.2.4
sambasamba3.2.5
sambasamba3.2.6
sambasamba3.2.7
sambasamba3.2.8
sambasamba3.2.9
sambasamba3.2.10
sambasamba3.2.11
sambasamba3.2.12
sambasamba3.2.13
sambasamba3.2.14
sambasamba3.2.15
sambasamba3.3.0
sambasamba3.3.1
sambasamba3.3.2
sambasamba3.3.3
sambasamba3.3.4
sambasamba3.3.5
sambasamba3.3.6
sambasamba3.3.7
sambasamba3.3.8
sambasamba3.3.9
sambasamba3.3.10
sambasamba3.3.11
sambasamba3.3.12
sambasamba3.3.13
sambasamba3.3.14
sambasamba3.3.15
sambasamba3.3.16
sambasamba3.4.0
sambasamba3.4.1
sambasamba3.4.2
sambasamba3.4.3
sambasamba3.4.4
sambasamba3.4.5
sambasamba3.4.6
sambasamba3.4.7
sambasamba3.4.8
sambasamba3.4.9
sambasamba3.4.10
sambasamba3.4.11
sambasamba3.4.12
sambasamba3.4.13
sambasamba3.4.14
sambasamba3.4.15
sambasamba3.4.16
sambasamba3.4.17
sambasamba3.5.0
sambasamba3.5.1
sambasamba3.5.2
sambasamba3.5.10
sambasamba3.5.11
sambasamba3.5.12
sambasamba3.5.13
sambasamba3.5.14
sambasamba3.5.15
sambasamba3.5.16
sambasamba3.5.17
sambasamba3.5.18
sambasamba3.5.19
sambasamba3.5.20
sambasamba3.5.21
sambasamba3.6.0
sambasamba3.6.1
sambasamba3.6.2
sambasamba3.6.3
sambasamba3.6.4
sambasamba3.6.5
sambasamba3.6.6
sambasamba3.6.7
sambasamba3.6.8
sambasamba3.6.9
sambasamba3.6.10
sambasamba3.6.11
sambasamba3.6.12
sambasamba3.6.13
sambasamba3.6.14
sambasamba3.6.15
sambasamba3.6.16
sambasamba4.0.0
sambasamba4.0.1
sambasamba4.0.2
sambasamba4.0.3
sambasamba4.0.4
sambasamba4.0.5
sambasamba4.0.6
sambasamba4.0.7

References

CWEs

CWE-189

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.