CVE-2018-14629

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    CVE-2018-14629

    Published: 28 Nov 2018Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106022, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00005.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0001/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3827-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3827-2/, https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4345, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14629, https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-14629.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- df33344d8eb40221d60c99931690703a11d91bc2
    Fixed -b7d190f89d7674cf58a02486fa9887d393918611

    Affected versions

    samba-4.8.6
    samba-4.8.5
    samba-4.8.3
    samba-4.8.2
    samba-4.8.1
    samba-4.8.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High