CVE-2015-7540

samba: DoS to AD-DC due to insufficient checking of asn1 memory allocation

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · December 16, 2015

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

A denial of service flaw was found in the LDAP server provided by the AD DC in the Samba process daemon. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted packet, which could cause the server to consume an excessive amount of memory and crash.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling