A flaw was found in samba. Spaces used in a string around a domain name (DN), while supposed to be ignored, can cause invalid DN strings with spaces to instead write a zero-byte into out-of-bounds memory, resulting in a crash. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2611-1 ldb security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4884-1 ldb security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4888-1 ldb vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4888-2 ldb vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:25:43.194Z

Reserved: 2020-10-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-27840

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-05-12T15:15:07.543

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:21:54.707

Link: CVE-2020-27840

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2021-03-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-27840 - Bugzilla

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