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CVE-2002-1318 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in samba 2.2.2 through 2.2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a…

published 2002-12-11 23 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-1302

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
51.9%
EPSS 51.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

Buffer overflow in samba 2.2.2 through 2.2.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an encrypted password that causes the overflow during decryption in which a DOS codepage string is converted to a little-endian UCS2 unicode string.

Patch / fix

  • samba Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.2.7

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2002-1318

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2002-1318 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 7.3 Red Hat Linux 8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:266

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/samba/nttrans)

Exploit prediction

51.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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