Medium severity · published Oct 29, 2020
CVE-2020-14323
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in samba's Winbind service in versions before 4.11.15, before 4.12.9 and before 4.13.1
5.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in samba's Winbind service in versions before 4.11.15, before 4.12.9 and before 4.13.1. A local user could use this flaw to crash the winbind service causing denial of service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 50% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
32; 33 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.1; 15.2 · source: NVD
SA
Samba · Samba
3.6.0 before 4.11.15; 4.12.0 before 4.12.9; 4.13.0 before 4.13.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14323
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-14323
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00012.html
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891685
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00041.html
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00015.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JE2M4FE3N3EDXVG4UKSVFPL7SQUGFFDP/
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