CVE-2018-14629

samba: Unprivileged adding of CNAME record causing loop in AD LDAP server

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 20, 2018

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Samba's LDAP server. A CNAME loop could lead to infinite recursion in the server. An unprivileged local attacker could create such an entry, leading to denial of service.

Statement

Samba 4 packages distributed with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are built without the AD DC functionality, where this flaw is present. These packages are not affected by this vulnerability.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption