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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-10730: samba: NULL pointer de-reference and use-after-free in Samba AD DC LDAP Server with ASQ, VLV and paged_results

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2020-10730: samba: NULL pointer de-reference and use-after-free in Samba AD DC LDAP Server with ASQ, VLV and paged_results

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/07/2020
Created
03/13/2021
Added
03/12/2021
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

A NULL pointer dereference, or possible use-after-free flaw was found in Samba AD LDAP server in versions before 4.10.17, before 4.11.11 and before 4.12.4. Although some versions of Samba shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux do not support Samba in AD mode, the affected code is shipped with the libldb package. This flaw allows an authenticated user to possibly trigger a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

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