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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-12436

Samba 4.10.x before 4.10.5 has a NULL pointer dereference, leading to an AD DC LDAP server Denial of Service. This is related to an attacker using the paged search control. The attacker must have directory read access in order to attempt an exploit.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:10 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-12436

core-osv · Original source

Published 19 Jun 2019, 12:15 UTC

Samba 4.10.x before 4.10.5 has a NULL pointer dereference, leading to an AD DC LDAP server Denial of Service. This is related to an attacker using the paged search control. The attacker must have directory read access in order to attempt an exploit.

osv:CVE-2019-12436
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-12436",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "Samba 4.10.x before 4.10.5 has a NULL pointer dereference, leading to an AD DC LDAP server Denial of Service. This is related to an attacker using the paged search control. The attacker must have directory read access in order to attempt an exploit.",
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      ],
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          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:36.252098311Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZQ3LCJNJ3ONHIRKDSKOTT6QGXALLCHVG/",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4018-1/",
        "https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2019-12436.html",
        "https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_27"
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                    "introduced": "19.04"
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    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433923,
  "published_at": "2019-06-19T12:15:10.233+00:00"
}