Memory corruption in Samba - CVE-2020-14383

 

Memory corruption in Samba - CVE-2020-14383

Published: October 29, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU47993
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-14383
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Samba
Affected software:
Samba

Detailed vulnerability description

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

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing DNS records. A remote user

 with ability to create MX or NS records with absent properties can trigger the RPC service to dereference uninitialized memory and will result in denial of service attack against the RPC service.

How to mitigate CVE-2020-14383

Install updates from vendor's website.

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