vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2020-27840: ldb, samba -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 1, 2021
Added
Apr 1, 2021
Modified
May 27, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in samba. Spaces used in a string around a domain name (DN), while supposed to be ignored, can cause invalid DN strings with spaces to instead write a zero-byte into out-of-bounds memory, resulting in a crash. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution(s)

debian-upgrade-ldbdebian-upgrade-sambano-fix-debian-deb-package
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