Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 28, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-16851
CVE-2018-16851
Description
Samba from version 4.0.0 and before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7, 4.9.3 is vulnerable to a denial of service. During the processing of an LDAP search before Samba's AD DC returns the LDAP entries to the client, the entries are cached in a single memory object with a maximum size of 256MB. When this size is reached, the Samba process providing the LDAP service will follow the NULL pointer, terminating the process. There is no further vulnerability associated with this issue, merely a denial of service.
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Affected products
134.0.0 - 4.7.11, 4.8.0 - 4.8.6, 4.9.0 - 4.9.2+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: 4.0.0 - 4.7.11, 4.8.0 - 4.8.6, 4.9.0 - 4.9.2
- cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=4.0.0,<4.7.12
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*+ 4 more
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- osv-coords4 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/samba&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Package%20Hub%2015pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Availability%20Extension%2015
< 4.14.6+git.182.2205d5224e3-1.1+ 3 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6+git.182.2205d5224e3-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.11+git.140.6bd0e5b30d8-4.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.11+git.140.6bd0e5b30d8-4.21.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.7.11+git.140.6bd0e5b30d8-4.21.1
Patches
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References
9- www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-16851.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/106027nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00005.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52nvdThird Party Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0001/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3827-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3827-2/nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4345nvdThird Party Advisory
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