CVE-2022-3437

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in Samba within the GSSAPI unwrap_des() and unwrap_des3() routines of Heimdal. The DES and Triple-DES decryption routines in the Heimdal GSSAPI library allow a length-limited write buffer overflow on malloc() allocated memory when presented with a maliciously small packet. This flaw allows a remote user to send specially crafted malicious data to the application, possibly resulting in a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Samba in RHEL is not compiled to use the Heimdal Kerberos library.

Versions of Samba shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux are compiled to use the system MIT Kerberos using the "--with-system-mitkrb5" argument, and these installations are not impacted, as the vulnerable code is not compiled into Samba.

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