Vulnerability CVE-2021-3738


Published: 2022-03-02   Modified: 2022-03-03

Description:
In DCE/RPC it is possible to share the handles (cookies for resource state) between multiple connections via a mechanism called 'association groups'. These handles can reference connections to our sam.ldb database. However while the database was correctly shared, the user credentials state was only pointed at, and when one connection within that association group ended, the database would be left pointing at an invalid 'struct session_info'. The most likely outcome here is a crash, but it is possible that the use-after-free could instead allow different user state to be pointed at and this might allow more privileged access.

Type:

CWE-416

(Use After Free)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.5/10
6.4/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Samba -> Samba 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2021726
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2021-3738.html
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14468

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