CVE-2018-14629
Moderate
CVE-2018-14629
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Samba's LDAP server before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7, and 4.9.3. 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.
Exploit probability
5.2%
Published
November 28, 2018
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
9 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2018-14629
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A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Samba's LDAP server before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7, and 4.9.3. 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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106022
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14629
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00005.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0001/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3827-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3827-2/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4345
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-14629.html