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CVE-2023-5568

Date: October 24, 2023

A heap-based Buffer Overflow flaw was discovered in Samba. It could allow a remote, authenticated attacker to exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.9

Related Resources (8)

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231124-0007/

Url: https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.19.2.html

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245174

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-5568

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5568

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5568

Url: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15491

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2023-5568

Severity Score

5.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

Heap-based Buffer Overflow

CWE-122

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.9
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	HIGH

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