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Medium USN-4931-1 4 CVEs

samba vulnerabilities

Published May 3, 2021 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Summary

Steven French discovered that Samba incorrectly handled ChangeNotify
permissions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain file
name information. (CVE-2020-14318)

Bas Alberts discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain winbind
requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause winbind
to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2020-14323)

Francis Brosnan Blázquez discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain
invalid DNS records. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
cause the DNS server to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2020-14383)

Peter Eriksson discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain negative
idmap cache entries. This issue could result in certain users gaining
unauthorized access to files, contrary to expected behaviour.
(CVE-2021-20254)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS samba 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.20+esm11

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14318
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14323
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14383
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-20254