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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-14323: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2021-1469)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2020-14323: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2021-1469)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/29/2020
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/15/2021
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in samba's Winbind service in versions before 4.11.15, before 4.12.9 and before 4.13.1. A local user could use this flaw to crash the winbind service causing denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-samba

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