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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-1140: Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-1140: Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/22/2018
Created
03/28/2020
Added
03/27/2020
Modified
03/27/2020

Description

A missing input sanitization flaw was found in the implementation of LDP database used for the LDAP server. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service against a samba server, used as a Active Directory Domain Controller. All versions of Samba from 4.8.0 onwards are vulnerable

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-fs-samba

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