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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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CVE-2007-0453 Detail

Description

Buffer overflow in the nss_winbind.so.1 library in Samba 3.0.21 through 3.0.23d, as used in the winbindd daemon on Solaris, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via the (1) gethostbyname and (2) getipnodebyname functions.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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N/A
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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (05/14/2007)

Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect Linux versions of Samba.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://osvdb.org/33098 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24043 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24101 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/24151 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017589 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.476916 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://us1.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-0453.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.012.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459168/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459365/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22410 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0007 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0483 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32231 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1005 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-0453
NVD Published Date:
02/05/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.