USN-4341-1: Samba vulnerabilities
28 April 2020
Several security issues were fixed in Samba.
Releases
Packages
- samba - SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix
Details
Andrei Popa discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain LDAP queries.
A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting
in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-10700)
It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain LDAP queries. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to consume
resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-10704)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References
Related notices
- USN-4341-2: samba, samba-doc, libwbclient0, libparse-pidl-perl, libpam-smbpass, samba-dev, winbind, samba-common, smbclient, samba-dsdb-modules, registry-tools, libwbclient-dev, libsmbclient-dev, samba-vfs-modules, samba-libs, samba-testsuite, samba-common-bin, python-samba, libpam-winbind, libnss-winbind, libsmbsharemodes-dev, libsmbsharemodes0, libsmbclient