UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14629

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-14629

    Published: 27 Nov 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-14629

    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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-14629, https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-14629.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3827-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3827-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14629

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: samba

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/samba@2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.19?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.19

    Affected versions

    2:3.6.18-1ubuntu3

    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