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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-20254: Out-of-bounds Read

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-20254: Out-of-bounds Read

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
05/05/2021
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

A flaw was found in samba. The Samba smbd file server must map Windows group identities (SIDs) into unix group ids (gids). The code that performs this had a flaw that could allow it to read data beyond the end of the array in the case where a negative cache entry had been added to the mapping cache. This could cause the calling code to return those values into the process token that stores the group membership for a user. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-samba

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