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FKIE_CVE-2018-14629

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-11-28 14:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:41
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Samba's LDAP server before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7, and 4.9.3. A CNAME loop could lead to infinite recursion in the server. An unprivileged local attacker could create such an entry, leading to denial of service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106022Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14629Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00005.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0001/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3827-1/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3827-2/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4345Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-14629.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106022Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14629Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00005.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0001/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3827-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3827-2/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4345Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-14629.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
samba samba *
samba samba *
samba samba *
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 18.10
debian debian_linux 8.0
debian debian_linux 9.0
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