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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-10730: NULL Pointer Dereference

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-10730: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/07/2020
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

A NULL pointer dereference, or possible use-after-free flaw was found in Samba AD LDAP server in versions before 4.10.17, before 4.11.11 and before 4.12.4. Although some versions of Samba shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux do not support Samba in AD mode, the affected code is shipped with the libldb package. This flaw allows an authenticated user to possibly trigger a use-after-free or NULL pointer dereference. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-samba

References

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