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Samba CVE-2018-1140: Denial of Service Attack on DNS and LDAP server

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Samba CVE-2018-1140: Denial of Service Attack on DNS and LDAP server

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/16/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
08/16/2018
Modified
10/17/2018

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)

  • samba-upgrade-4_8_4

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