A denial of service flaw was found in the LDAP server provided by the AD DC in the Samba process daemon. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted packet, which could cause the server to consume an excessive amount of memory and crash.
Find out more about CVE-2015-7540 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Gluster 3 Samba on RHEL-6 (samba) | RHSA-2016:0015 | 2016-01-08 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (samba4) | RHSA-2016:0010 | 2016-01-07 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (samba) | RHBA-2015:2258 | 2015-11-19 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.0 | samba | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | samba | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | samba | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | samba3x | Not affected |
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