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CVE-2014-0239

samba: potential DoS in the internal DNS server

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

1.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · May 28, 2014

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

The internal DNS server in Samba 4.x before 4.0.18 does not check the QR field in the header section of an incoming DNS message before sending a response, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged response packet that triggers a communication loop, a related issue to CVE-1999-0103.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of samba as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This issue does not affect the version of samba3x as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue does not affect the version of samba4 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 1.8
AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified