CVE-2023-42670

Samba: ad dc busy rpc multiple listener dos

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Nov 3, 2023
Updated
Nov 20, 2025
Reserved
Sep 13, 2023

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Description

A flaw was found in Samba. It is susceptible to a vulnerability where multiple incompatible RPC listeners can be initiated, causing disruptions in the AD DC service. When Samba's RPC server experiences a high load or unresponsiveness, servers intended for non-AD DC purposes (for example, NT4-emulation "classic DCs") can erroneously start and compete for the same unix domain sockets. This issue leads to partial query responses from the AD DC, causing issues such as "The procedure number is out of range" when using tools like Active Directory Users. This flaw allows an attacker to disrupt AD DC services.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hredhat

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
samba
  • 4.16.0 to before 4.17.12Affected
  • 4.18.0 to before 4.18.8Affected
  • 4.19.0Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
          Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
            Red Hat Storage 3Red Hat

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