CVE-2014-0239 (GCVE-0-2014-0239)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-28 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:05
VLAI
Summary
The internal DNS server in Samba 4.x before 4.0.18 does not check the QR field in the header section of an incoming DNS message before sending a response, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged response packet that triggers a communication loop, a related issue to CVE-1999-0103.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-15.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67691 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/59579 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030309 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2014-05-27 00:00
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