Insecure Default Affecting samba package, versions [4.0.0,4.9.17)[4.10.0,4.10.11)[4.11.0,4.11.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.73% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SAMBA-2370438
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Dec 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Dec 2019

CVE-2019-14861  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-276  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade samba to version 4.9.17, 4.10.11, 4.11.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Default. 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.

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