VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-5330

high
Published 2015-12-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

ldb before 1.1.24, as used in the AD LDAP server in Samba 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3, mishandles string lengths, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from daemon heap memory by sending crafted packets and then reading (1) an error message or (2) a database value.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed2:1.1.24-1
debian debianbookwormfixed2:4.1.22+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:4.1.22+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed2:4.1.22+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:4.1.22+dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
sambasamba4.0.0
sambasamba4.0.1
sambasamba4.0.2
sambasamba4.0.3
sambasamba4.0.4
sambasamba4.0.5
sambasamba4.0.6
sambasamba4.0.7
sambasamba4.0.8
sambasamba4.0.9
sambasamba4.0.10
sambasamba4.0.11
sambasamba4.0.12
sambasamba4.0.13
sambasamba4.0.14
sambasamba4.0.15
sambasamba4.0.16
sambasamba4.0.17
sambasamba4.0.18
sambasamba4.0.19
sambasamba4.0.20
sambasamba4.0.21
sambasamba4.0.22
sambasamba4.0.23
sambasamba4.0.24
sambasamba4.1.0
sambasamba4.1.1
sambasamba4.1.2
sambasamba4.1.3
sambasamba4.1.4
sambasamba4.1.5
sambasamba4.1.6
sambasamba4.1.7
sambasamba4.1.8
sambasamba4.1.9
sambasamba4.1.10
sambasamba4.1.11
sambasamba4.1.12
sambasamba4.1.13
sambasamba4.1.14
sambasamba4.1.15
sambasamba4.1.16
sambasamba4.1.17
sambasamba4.1.18
sambasamba4.1.19
sambasamba4.1.20
sambasamba4.1.21
sambasamba4.2.0
sambasamba4.2.1
sambasamba4.2.2
sambasamba4.2.3
sambasamba4.2.4
sambasamba4.2.5
sambasamba4.2.6
sambasamba4.3.0
sambasamba4.3.1
sambasamba4.3.2

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.