CVE-2018-14629

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Samba's LDAP server before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7, and 4.9.3. A CNAME loop could lead to infinite recursion in the server. An unprivileged local attacker could create such an entry, leading to denial of service.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-14629

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14629.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-22

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.9.3-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debianforkyfixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debiansidfixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debiantrixiefixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2

References

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