NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting samba package, versions <2:4.9.5+dfsg-5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.72% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-SAMBA-450776
  • published23 Jun 2019
  • disclosed19 Jun 2019

Introduced: 19 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-12435  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 samba to version 2:4.9.5+dfsg-5 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba package and not the samba package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Samba 4.9.x before 4.9.9 and 4.10.x before 4.10.5 has a NULL pointer dereference, leading to Denial of Service. This is related to the AD DC DNS management server (dnsserver) RPC server process.