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Date:      Tue, 18 Mar 2003 19:16:28 +0100
From:      Jens Rehsack <rehsack@liwing.de>
To:        "Nikolaj I. Potanin" <nikolaj@drweb.ru>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Samba vulnerability
Message-ID:  <3E77627C.2020709@liwing.de>
References:  <20030318143759.GA77729@nevermind.kiev.ua> <3E774C85.902@drweb.ru>

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Nikolaj I. Potanin wrote:
>> A flaw has been detected in the Samba main smbd code which could allow
>> an external attacker to remotely and anonymously gain Super User (root)
> 
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Does anyone here have smbd bound to an external interface? ;-)

Even if it's possible when you're using ssl-binding in samba as 
described in the book "Samba unleashed". If someone hacks your ssl-keys, 
I think the open samba is a minor problem :-)

Jens


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