DNS: Samba AD DC CVE-2018-1140 Denial of service

This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability against Samba. A successful attack can result in a denial-of-service condition.

Extended Description

A missing input sanitization flaw was found in the implementation of LDP database used for the LDAP server. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service against a samba server, used as a Active Directory Domain Controller. All versions of Samba from 4.8.0 onwards are vulnerable

Affected Products

Samba samba

Short Name
DNS:QUERY:CVE-2018-1140-DOS
Severity
Minor
Recommended
True
Recommended Action
Drop
Category
DNS
Keywords
AD CVE-2018-1140 DC Denial Samba bid:105082 of service
Release Date
09/27/2018
Supported Platforms

srx-branch-12.3

srx-19.3

srx-branch-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.2

srx-branch-19.4

vsrx-19.4

mx-12.3

mx-19.4

vmx-19.4

mx-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.4

srx-19.4

vsrx-12.3

vmx-19.3

vsrx-19.2

srx-12.3

Sigpack Version
3337
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors

Samba

CVSS Score

3.3

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