Short Name |
SCAN:CORE:SAMBA-NTTRANS |
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Severity |
Medium |
Recommended |
No |
Recommended Action |
Drop |
Category |
SCAN |
Keywords |
Core Impact SAMBA nttrans Exploit |
Release Date |
2004/12/13 |
Update Number |
1213 |
Supported Platforms |
idp-4.0+, isg-3.0+, j-series-9.5+, mx-9.4+, srx-9.2+, srx-branch-9.4+, vsrx-12.1+ |
This signature detects the CORE Impact penetration testing tool using the SAMBA nttrans exploit against your network (this exploit is also detected by the signature attack object CRIT:APP:SAMBA:NTRANS-RPLY). Because CORE Impact can chain one infected computer to another, other machines in the network might already be compromised. CORE Impact can be used legitimately to perform a network security audit of your network. However, if a network security audit is not in progress, this signature can indicate that a malicious attacker is using the CORE Impact tool to compromise your network.
Samba is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability when the 'smbd' service tries to reassemble specially crafted SMB/CIFS packets. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by creating a specially formatted SMB/CIFS packet and sending it to a vulnerable Samba server. The overflow condition will be triggered and will cause smbd to overwrite sensitive areas of memory with attacker-supplied values. Note that the smbd service runs with root privileges.