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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-0244: samba remote information leak and DoS

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-0244: samba remote information leak and DoS

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/28/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

The sys_recvfrom function in nmbd in Samba 3.6.x before 3.6.24, 4.0.x before 4.0.19, and 4.1.x before 4.1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a malformed UDP packet.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-samba

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