# CVE-2020-10745: A flaw was found in all Samba versions before 4.10.17, before 4.11.11 and before 4.12.4 in the way it processed NetBios over TCP/IP.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-07-07 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a Samba: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in all Samba versions before 4.10.17, before 4.11.11 and before 4.12.4 in the way it processed NetBios over TCP/IP. This flaw allows a remote attacker could to cause the Samba server to consume excessive CPU use, resulting in a denial of service. This highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

## What to do

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

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1849491%3B
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-10745.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6YLNQ5GRXUKYRUAOFZ4DUBVN4SMTL6Q2/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00030.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00054.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-15
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00002.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00041.html

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