SERVER-SAMBA -- Snort has detected traffic exploiting vulnerabilities in Samba servers.
SERVER-SAMBA Samba LDAP modify dnsRecord buffer overflow attempt
This rule is looking for an exceptionally large dnsRecord in Samba LDAP that causes a buffer overflow.
This event is generated when an attempt is made to exploit a known vulnerability in 2016-2123.
No public information
No known false positives
Cisco Talos This document was generated from data supplied by the National Vulnerability Database. A product of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. For more information see http://nvd.nist.gov/
Tactic: Impact
Technique: Endpoint Denial of Service
For reference, see the MITRE ATT&CK vulnerability types here: https://attack.mitre.org
Memory Corruption
Memory Corruption is any vulnerability that allows the modification of the content of memory locations in a way not intended by the developer. Memory corruption results are inconsistent; they could lead to fatal errors and system crashes or data leakage; some have no effect at all.