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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-10700

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way samba AD DC LDAP servers, handled 'Paged Results' control is combined with the 'ASQ' control. A malicious user in a samba AD could use this flaw to cause denial of service. This issue affects all samba versions before 4.10.15, before 4.11.8 and before 4.12.2.

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CVE-2020-10700

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 May 2020, 21:15 UTC

A use-after-free flaw was found in the way samba AD DC LDAP servers, handled 'Paged Results' control is combined with the 'ASQ' control. A malicious user in a samba AD could use this flaw to cause denial of service. This issue affects all samba versions before 4.10.15, before 4.11.8 and before 4.12.2.

osv:CVE-2020-10700
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-10700",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-10700",
    "summary": "A use-after-free flaw was found in the way samba AD DC LDAP servers, handled 'Paged Results' control is combined with the 'ASQ' control. A malicious user in a samba AD could use this flaw to cause denial of service. This issue affects all samba versions before 4.10.15, before 4.11.8 and before 4.12.2.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-10700",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
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            "ldb-1.5.5",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:32.290910527Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WG54NRMES2GTURZKZH6H4BGXCD3OMJDJ/",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y7DVGCHG3XPIBQ5ETGMGW7MXNOO4HFH4/",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-15",
        "https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-10700.html",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10700"
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433001,
  "published_at": "2020-05-04T21:15:11.82+00:00"
}