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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-0771: samba security issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-0771: samba security issues

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The internal DNS server in Samba 4.x before 4.1.23, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, 4.3.x before 4.3.6, and 4.4.x before 4.4.0rc4, when an AD DC is configured, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory by uploading a crafted DNS TXT record.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-samba

References

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