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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-10745: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2020-10745: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/07/2020
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

Description

A flaw was found in all Samba versions before 4.10.17, before 4.11.11 and before 4.12.4 in the way it processed NetBios over TCP/IP. This flaw allows a remote attacker could to cause the Samba server to consume excessive CPU use, resulting in a denial of service. This highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-samba

References

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