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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.