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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.150747
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Samba 4.0.0 <= 4.1.21 DoS Vulnerability (CVE-2015-7540)
Summary:Samba is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Samba is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
All versions of Samba from 4.0.0 to 4.1.21 inclusive are
vulnerable to an anonymous memory exhaustion attack in the samba daemon LDAP server.

A malicious client can send packets that cause the LDAP server provided by the AD DC in the samba
daemon process to consume unlimited memory and be terminated.

Affected Software/OS:
Samba versions 4.0.0 through 4.1.21.

Solution:
Update to version 4.1.22 or later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-7540
BugTraq ID: 79736
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79736
Debian Security Information: DSA-3433 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3433
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174391.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174076.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-47
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034492
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2015:2356 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00033.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-2
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