NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting samba-python package, versions <0:4.8.3-4.amzn2.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.95% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-SAMBAPYTHON-1666708
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed13 Mar 2018

Introduced: 13 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-1050  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 samba-python to version 0:4.8.3-4.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2018-1126.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba-python package and not the samba-python package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

All versions of Samba from 4.0.0 onwards are vulnerable to a denial of service attack when the RPC spoolss service is configured to be run as an external daemon. Missing input sanitization checks on some of the input parameters to spoolss RPC calls could cause the print spooler service to crash.

CVSS Scores

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