MediumFix available
samba — security advisory
A flaw was found in Samba. An incomplete access check on dnsHostName allows authenticated but otherwise unprivileged users to delete this attribute from any object in the directory.
- Products
- samba
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2:4.17.7+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-0225
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in Samba. An incomplete access check on dnsHostName allows authenticated but otherwise unprivileged users to delete this attribute from any object in the directory.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-0225
samba
Fixed versions: 2:4.17.7+dfsg-1
samba
Fixed versions: 2:4.17.7+dfsg-1
samba
Fixed versions: 2:4.17.7+dfsg-1
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 454906,
"published_at": "2023-04-03T23:15:06.907+00:00"
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