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SWAT overflow

Vulnerability Assessment Summary SWAT overflow Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment The remote host is running SWAT - a web-based administration tool for Samba. There is a buffer overflow condition in the remote version of this software which might permit a possible hacker to execute arbitrary code on the remote host by sending a malformed authorization request (or any malformed base64 data). Solution : Upgrade to Samba 3.0.5 Network Security Threat Level: High Networks Security ID: 10780 Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Tenable Network Security

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