Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-20277 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
A flaw was found in Samba's libldb. Multiple, consecutive leading spaces in an LDAP attribute can lead to an out-of-bounds memory write, leading to a crash of the LDAP server process handling the request. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/03/msg00036.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1941402
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2021-20277.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210326-0007/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4884
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202105-22
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X5J3B6PN5XMXF3OHYBNHDKZ3XFSUGY4L/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZXP3ONIY6MB4C5LDZV4YL5KJCES3UX24/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VLZ74IF2N75VQSIHBL4B3P5WKWQCXSRY/