# CVE-2018-14629: A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Samba's LDAP server before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7, and 4.9.3.

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-11-28 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- \[UNKNOWN\] samba: 4.7.12, 4.8.7, 4.9.3

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on \[UNKNOWN\] samba, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

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

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