[Samba] CVE-2019-14907 impact on smbd daemon

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2020-01-24 at 08:29 +0000, Madhappan, Silambarasan via samba
wrote:
> Thank you, Andrew Bartlett for detailed clarification.

Thanks.  Once further clarification:  I said it was a NULL dereference,
but it is/was a read beyond the end of the supplied buffer.  If the CPU
encounters the end of the mapped memory before a \0 (NUL) byte in the
buffer being converted from, it will fault the process.

Andrew Bartlett

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