NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting samba4-python package, versions <0:4.2.10-15.el6


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.76% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-SAMBA4PYTHON-1518367
  • published26 Jul 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 RHEL:6 samba4-python to version 0:4.2.10-15.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:1883.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba4-python package and not the samba4-python package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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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