CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-10704

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: May 06, 2020 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A flaw was found when using samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller. Due to the way samba handles certain requests as an Active Directory Domain Controller LDAP server, an unauthorized user can cause a stack overflow leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This issue affects all samba versions before 4.10.15, before 4.11.8 and before 4.12.2.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Samba Samba 4.0.0 (including) 4.10.15 (excluding)
Samba Samba 4.11.0 (including) 4.11.8 (excluding)
Samba Samba 4.12.0 (including) 4.12.2 (excluding)
Samba Ubuntu bionic *
Samba Ubuntu devel *
Samba Ubuntu eoan *
Samba Ubuntu focal *
Samba Ubuntu trusty *
Samba Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Samba Ubuntu upstream *
Samba Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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