Denial of service in Samba



Published: 2021-10-13
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2021-3671
CWE-ID CWE-476
Exploitation vector Local network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		Samba
Server applications / Directory software, identity management

Vendor Samba

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) NULL pointer dereference

EUVDB-ID: #VU57324

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3671

CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the way samba kerberos server handles missing sname attribute in TGS-REQ (Ticket Granting Server - Request). A remote authenticated user can send a specially crafted request to the samba server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Samba: 4.14.0 - 4.14.7, 4.13.0 - 4.13.11

CPE2.3 External links

http://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14770
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2013080
http://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/04171147948d0a3636bc6374181926f0fb2ec83a

Q & A

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