CVE-2019-14847 Null dereference in samba

Medium 4.9 Published Updated

An attacker can crash the Samba Active Directory Domain Controller LDAP server via dirsync, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2019-14847?

CVE-2019-14847 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 6 Nov 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in samba 4.0.0 before samba 4.9.15 and samba 4.10.x before 4.10.10. An attacker can crash AD DC LDAP server via dirsync resulting in denial of service. Privilege escalation is not possible with this issue.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14847?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Leap, Samba Samba.

How do I fix CVE-2019-14847?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2019-14847 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14847 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Fedoraproject Fedora vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2019-14847, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14847, ECHO-afc5-d60f-8677, GHSA-fc52-9g4r-5jw7, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14847.

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