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Samba CVE-2018-10918: Denial of Service Attack on AD DC DRSUAPI server

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Samba CVE-2018-10918: Denial of Service Attack on AD DC DRSUAPI server

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/16/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/16/2018
Modified
11/02/2018

Description

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the way samba checked database outputs from the LDB database layer. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash a samba server in an Active Directory Domain Controller configuration. Samba versions before 4.7.9 and 4.8.4 are vulnerable.

Solution(s)

  • samba-upgrade-4_7_9
  • samba-upgrade-4_8_4

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