CVE-2015-7540
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-12-29 22:00
Modified
2024-08-06 07:51
Severity ?
Summary
The LDAP server in the AD domain controller in Samba 4.x before 4.1.22 does not check return values to ensure successful ASN.1 memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and daemon crash) via crafted packets.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174076.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174391.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00033.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3433Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79736Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034492Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-2Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288451Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=530d50a1abdcdf4d1775652d4c456c1274d83d8d
secalert@redhat.comhttps://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9d989c9dd7a5b92d0c5d65287935471b83b6e884
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-47Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2015-7540.htmlVendor Advisory
Impacted products
n/an/a
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