CVE-2018-14629

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

Mitigation details

Source: Debian Security Tracker · View original ↗ · DFSG

CVE-2018-14629 NameCVE-2018-14629 DescriptionA 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. SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu,…

CVE-2018-14629

Name	CVE-2018-14629
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-1607-1, DSA-4345-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
samba (PTS)	bullseye	2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u6	fixed
	bullseye (security)	2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u7	fixed
	bookworm	2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u3	fixed
	bookworm (security)	2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u4	fixed
	trixie	2:4.22.8+dfsg-0+deb13u1	fixed
	trixie (security)	2:4.22.8+dfsg-0+deb13u2	fixed
	forky, sid	2:4.24.3+dfsg-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
samba	source	jessie	2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u11	DLA-1607-1
samba	source	stretch	2:4.5.12+dfsg-2+deb9u4	DSA-4345-1
samba	source	(unstable)	2:4.9.2+dfsg-2

Notes

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-14629.html

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Apply commands

text fix

Notes

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-14629.html

OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`4.9.3-1`

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2:4.9.2+dfsg-2`
sid	Fixed	`2:4.9.2+dfsg-2`
forky	Fixed	`2:4.9.2+dfsg-2`
bullseye	Fixed	`2:4.9.2+dfsg-2`
bookworm	Fixed	`2:4.9.2+dfsg-2`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.