CVE-2020-10704

NameCVE-2020-10704
DescriptionA flaw was found when using samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller. Due to the way samba handles certain requests as an Active Directory Domain Controller LDAP server, an unauthorized user can cause a stack overflow leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability. This issue affects all samba versions before 4.10.15, before 4.11.8 and before 4.12.2.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2463-1, ELA-317-1
Debian Bugs960188

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
samba (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u16fixed
stretch (security)2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u4fixed
stretch (lts), stretch2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u5fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)2:4.9.5+dfsg-5+deb10u5vulnerable
bullseye (security), bullseye2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u6fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2:4.21.1+dfsg-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
sambasourcewheezy(unfixed)end-of-life
sambasourcejessie2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u14ELA-317-1
sambasourcestretch2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u3DLA-2463-1
sambasource(unstable)2:4.12.3+dfsg-2960188

Notes

[buster] - samba <postponed> (Can be fixed along in future DSA)
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14334
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-10704.html

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