How severe is CVE-2015-0240?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 10 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2015-0240?

This is classified as CWE-17, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2015-0240 - HIGH Severity | CVSS 10

Vulnerability Description

The Netlogon server implementation in smbd in Samba 3.5.x and 3.6.x before 3.6.25, 4.0.x before 4.0.25, 4.1.x before 4.1.17, and 4.2.x before 4.2.0rc5 performs a free operation on an uninitialized stack pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted Netlogon packets that use the ServerPasswordSet RPC API, as demonstrated by packets reaching the _netr_ServerPasswordSet function in rpc_server/netlogon/srv_netlog_nt.c.

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