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Samba CVE-2021-20277: CVE-2020-27840 and CVE-2021-20277. Please see announcements for details.

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Samba CVE-2021-20277: CVE-2020-27840 and CVE-2021-20277. Please see announcements for details.

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/15/2021
Created
04/15/2021
Added
04/15/2021
Modified
06/11/2021

Description

A flaw was found in Samba's libldb. Multiple, consecutive leading spaces in an LDAP attribute can lead to an out-of-bounds memory write, leading to a crash of the LDAP server process handling the request. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution(s)

  • samba-upgrade-4_12_14
  • samba-upgrade-4_13_7
  • samba-upgrade-4_14_2

References

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