CVE-2015-5330

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-12-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

ldb before 1.1.24, as used in the AD LDAP server in Samba 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3, mishandles string lengths, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from daemon heap memory by sending crafted packets and then reading (1) an error message or (2) a database value.

Affected products

Samba: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+51)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00019.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00032.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00033.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00017.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00042.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00047.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00048.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3433
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79734

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