CVE - CVE-2015-7540

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-7540	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
The LDAP server in the AD domain controller in Samba 4.x before 4.1.22 does not check return values to ensure successful ASN.1 memory allocation, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and daemon crash) via crafted packets.
References
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BID:79736 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79736 CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288451 CONFIRM:https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=530d50a1abdcdf4d1775652d4c456c1274d83d8d CONFIRM:https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=commit;h=9d989c9dd7a5b92d0c5d65287935471b83b6e884 CONFIRM:https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2015-7540.html DEBIAN:DSA-3433 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3433 FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-0e0879cc8a URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174391.html FEDORA:FEDORA-2015-b36076d32e URL:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174076.html GENTOO:GLSA-201612-47 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-47 SECTRACK:1034492 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034492 SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:2356 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00033.html UBUNTU:USN-2855-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-1 UBUNTU:USN-2855-2 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-2
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20150929	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20150929)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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