The vulnerability of the LDAP protocol-based search mechanism of the Samba network interaction software package lies in the handling of the null pointer assignment, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability in the LDAP protocol-based network interaction software from Samba arises from the assignment of a null pointer when reaching the maximum search result size. This information is cached in a memory object with a maximum size of 256 MB. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an...