CVE-2019-14861

MEDIUM

Samba 4.0.0-4.9.16, 4.10.0-4.10.10, 4.11.0-4.11.2 - Authenticated Memory Corruption via DNS Record Enumeration

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

All Samba versions 4.x.x before 4.9.17, 4.10.x before 4.10.11 and 4.11.x before 4.11.3 have an issue, where the (poorly named) dnsserver RPC pipe provides administrative facilities to modify DNS records and zones. Samba, when acting as an AD DC, stores DNS records in LDAP. In AD, the default permissions on the DNS partition allow creation of new records by authenticated users. This is used for example to allow machines to self-register in DNS. If a DNS record was created that case-insensitively matched the name of the zone, the ldb_qsort() and dns_name_compare() routines could be confused into reading memory prior to the list of DNS entries when responding to DnssrvEnumRecords() or DnssrvEnumRecords2() and so following invalid memory as a pointer.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0500
EPSS Percentile 89.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-276
Status published
Products (10)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.10
debian/debian_linux 9.0
fedoraproject/fedora 30
fedoraproject/fedora 31
opensuse/leap 15.1
samba/samba 4.0.0 - 4.9.17
Published Dec 10, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026