Bug 1646377 (CVE-2018-16851) - CVE-2018-16851 samba: NULL pointer de-reference in Samba AD DC LDAP server
Summary: CVE-2018-16851 samba: NULL pointer de-reference in Samba AD DC LDAP server
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-16851
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1654091
Blocks: 1646387
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Reported: 2018-11-05 13:36 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:49 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: samba 4.7.12, samba 4.8.7, samba 4.9.3
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A null pointer dereference was found in the way LDAP search was implemented when Samba is used as Active Directory Domain Controller. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service (application crash).
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Last Closed: 2018-11-28 07:27:13 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-11-05 13:36:25 UTC 
A flaw was found in Samba versions from 4.0.0. During the processing of an LDAP search before Samba's AD DC returns the LDAP entries to the client, the entries are cached in a single memory object with a maximum size of 256MB.  When this size is reached, the Samba process providing the LDAP service will follow the NULL pointer, terminating the process. This can lead to a denial of service attack.
Comment 2 Sam Fowler 2018-11-28 02:54:49 UTC 
External Reference:

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-16851.html
Comment 3 Sam Fowler 2018-11-28 02:55:00 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Garming Sam (Samba Team and Catalyst)
Comment 4 Sam Fowler 2018-11-28 02:55:35 UTC 
Created samba tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1654091]
Comment 5 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2018-11-28 07:27:31 UTC 
Statement:

This flaw does not affect the version of samba shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux because there is no support for samba as Active Directory Domain Controller.
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