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Samba 4.0.0 <= 4.1.21 Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2015-7540

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Denial of Service

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Malicious request can cause Samba LDAP server to return crash.

Insight

Insight

All versions of Samba from 4.0.0 to 4.1.21 inclusive are vulnerable to an anonymous memory exhaustion attack in the samba daemon LDAP server. A malicious client can send packets that cause the LDAP server provided by the AD DC in the samba daemon process to consume unlimited memory and be terminated.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Samba versions 4.0.0 through 4.1.21.

Detection Method

Detection Method

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

Solution

Solution

Update to version 4.1.22 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)