CVE-2019-14861

Summary

CVECVE-2019-14861
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-12-10 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:05:00 UTC
DescriptionAll Samba versions 4.x.x before 4.9.17, 4.10.x before 4.10.11 and 4.11.x before 4.11.3 have an issue, where the (poorly named) dnsserver RPC pipe provides administrative facilities to modify DNS records and zones. Samba, when acting as an AD DC, stores DNS records in LDAP. In AD, the default permissions on the DNS partition allow creation of new records by authenticated users. This is used for example to allow machines to self-register in DNS. If a DNS record was created that case-insensitively matched the name of the zone, the ldb_qsort() and dns_name_compare() routines could be confused into reading memory prior to the list of DNS entries when responding to DnssrvEnumRecords() or DnssrvEnumRecords2() and so following invalid memory as a pointer.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-276

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All
Application Samba Samba All All All All
Application Samba Samba All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
December 2019 Samba Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: samba-4.11.3-0.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: samba-4.10.11-0.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2700-1: important: Security update SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Synology Inc. CONFIRM www.synology.com Third Party Advisory
USN-4217-2: Samba vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Samba - Security Announcement Archive CONFIRM www.samba.org Vendor Advisory
USN-4217-1: Samba vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: samba-4.11.3-0.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2668-1] samba security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Samba: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202003-52) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: samba-4.10.11-0.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Third Party Advisory
1778586 – (CVE-2019-14861) CVE-2019-14861 samba: An authenticated user can crash the DCE/RPC DNS management server by creating records with matching the zone name CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 178607 Debian Security Update for samba (DLA 2668-1)
  • 500623 Alpine Linux Security Update for samba
  • 504385 Alpine Linux Security Update for samba
  • 670882 EulerOS Security Update for samba (EulerOS-SA-2020-2396)
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