{"id":"USN-3827-1","summary":"samba vulnerabilities","details":"Florian Stuelpner discovered that Samba incorrectly handled CNAME records.\nA remote attacker could use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting\nin a denial of service. (CVE-2018-14629)\n\nAlex MacCuish discovered that Samba incorrectly handled memory when\nconfigured to accept smart-card authentication. A remote attacker could\npossibly use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of\nservice. (CVE-2018-16841)\n\nGarming Sam discovered that Samba incorrectly handled memory when\nprocessing LDAP searches. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue\nto cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service. 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