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Rewterz Threat Advisory – CVE-2021-44142 – Samba Server Vulnerability

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

CVE-2021-44142

Samba could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds heap read write in the VFS module vfs_fruit. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code as root on the system.

Impact

  • Code Execution

Affected Vendors

Samba

Affected Products

  • Samba Samba 4.13.16
  • Samba Samba 4.14
  • Samba Samba 4.13
  • Samba Samba 4.15

Remediation

Upgrade to the latest version of Samba, available from the Samba Web site.

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2021-44142.html

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