Security Advisory
CVE-2020-27840
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
A flaw was found in samba. Spaces used in a string around a domain name (DN), while supposed to be ignored, can cause invalid DN strings with spaces to instead write a zero-byte into out-of-bounds memory, resulting in a crash. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Published Date
May 12, 2021
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory