CVE-2018-14629

MEDIUM

Samba <4.7.12-4.9.3 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3827-2/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3827-1/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106022
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0001/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00005.html
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14629
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4345
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-14629.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0924
EPSS Percentile 92.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400 CWE-835
Status published
Products (8)
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
samba/samba 4.0.0 - 4.7.12
Published Nov 28, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026