VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0771

medium
Published 2016-03-13 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

Description

The internal DNS server in Samba 4.x before 4.1.23, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, 4.3.x before 4.3.6, and 4.4.x before 4.4.0rc4, when an AD DC is configured, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory by uploading a crafted DNS TXT record.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
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
debian debianbookwormfixed2:4.3.6+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:4.3.6+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:4.3.6+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed2:4.3.6+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:4.3.6+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
sambasamba4.1.22
sambasamba4.2.0
sambasamba4.2.1
sambasamba4.2.2
sambasamba4.2.3
sambasamba4.2.4
sambasamba4.2.5
sambasamba4.2.6
sambasamba4.2.7
sambasamba4.2.8
sambasamba4.3.0
sambasamba4.3.1
sambasamba4.3.2
sambasamba4.3.3
sambasamba4.3.4
sambasamba4.3.5
sambasamba4.4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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