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Debian 8 Jessie: DLA-1607-1 Critical: Samba Denial Of Service

debian lts
Calendar Grey December 15, 2018
Dist Debian Esm H88
Samba 2:4.1.17+dfsg-0+deb9u7 patch resolves various security flaws. Update to enhance protection.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Samba, a SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
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security advisory denial of service Debian samba NULL pointer dereference

Summary

Florian Stuelpner discovered that Samba is vulnerable to
infinite query recursion caused by CNAME loops, resulting in
denial of service.

CVE-2018-16851

Garming Sam of the Samba Team and Catalyst discovered a NULL pointer
dereference vulnerability in the Samba AD DC LDAP server allowing a
user able to read more than 256MB of LDAP entries to crash the Samba
AD DC's LDAP server.

For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u11.

We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS


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Package: samba
Version: 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u11
CVE ID: CVE-2018-14629 CVE-2018-16851

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security advisory denial of service Debian samba NULL pointer dereference

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