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CVE-2015-7540

Date: December 29, 2015

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (19)

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00033.html

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174391.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79736

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7540

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1288451

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7540

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3433

Url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7540

Url: https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2015-7540.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-7540

Url: https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9d989c9dd7a5b92d0c5d65287935471b83b6e884

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-47

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174076.html

Url: https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=530d50a1abdcdf4d1775652d4c456c1274d83d8d

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034492

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-2

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-1

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-7540

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2015-7540

Date: December 29, 2015

Language: C

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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