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Samba 4.10.0 < 4.10.5 DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2019-12436)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Denial of Service

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

4 years ago

Modified

Modified

4 years ago

Summary

Samba is prone to a denial of service vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

A user with read access to the LDAP server can crash the LDAP server process. Depending on the Samba version and the choice of process model, this may crash only the user's own connection. Specifically, while in Samba 4.10 the default is for one process per connected client, site-specific configuration triggers can change this.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Samba versions 4.10.x.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Update to version 4.10.5 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)