Advisory Published

USN-3827-1: Samba vulnerabilities

First published: Tue Nov 27 2018(Updated: )

Florian Stuelpner discovered that Samba incorrectly handled CNAME records. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-14629) Alex MacCuish discovered that Samba incorrectly handled memory when configured to accept smart-card authentication. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-16841) Garming Sam discovered that Samba incorrectly handled memory when processing LDAP searches. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-16851)

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
ubuntu/samba<2:4.8.4+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1
2:4.8.4+dfsg-2ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu Linux=18.10
All of
ubuntu/samba<2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.5
2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.5
Ubuntu Linux=18.04
All of
ubuntu/samba<2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.18
2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.18
Ubuntu Linux=16.04
All of
ubuntu/samba<2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.19
2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.19
Ubuntu Linux=14.04

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