# CVE-2019-14861: All Samba versions 4.x.x before 4.9.17, 4.10.x before 4.10.11 and 4.11.x before 4.11.3 have an issue, where the (poorly named) dnsserver RPC

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-12-10 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Red Hat samba: all versions 4.11.x before 4.11.3, all versions 4.10.x before 4.10.11, all versions 4.x.x before 4.9.17

## Description

All Samba versions 4.x.x before 4.9.17, 4.10.x before 4.10.11 and 4.11.x before 4.11.3 have an issue, where the (poorly named) dnsserver RPC pipe provides administrative facilities to modify DNS records and zones. Samba, when acting as an AD DC, stores DNS records in LDAP. In AD, the default permissions on the DNS partition allow creation of new records by authenticated users. This is used for example to allow machines to self-register in DNS. If a DNS record was created that case-insensitively matched the name of the zone, the ldb_qsort() and dns_name_compare() routines could be confused into reading memory prior to the list of DNS entries when responding to DnssrvEnumRecords() or DnssrvEnumRecords2() and so following invalid memory as a pointer.

## What to do

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

- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4217-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4217-2/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PJH3ROOFYMOATD2UEPC47P5RPBDTY77E/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00038.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WNKA4YIPV7AZR7KK3GW6L3HKGHSGJZFE/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14861
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191210-0002/
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2019-14861.html
- https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_40
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00023.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/24/3

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