The Trans2open Vulnerability

The trans2open vulnerability, sometimes also referred to as ”trans2 vulnerability”, is a weakness that can be found in Samba versions 2.2.0 to 2.2.8. It was disclosed in 2003, at which time the Samba Port 139 was one of the most attacked ports worldwide. The vulnerability consists in a buffer overflow (BOF) that can be exploited remotely. This allows the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system and even open reverse-shell with root privilidges.

Related CVE include CVE-2003-0196, CVE-2003-0201 and CVE-2003-0345.