NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting samba package, versions <2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.13


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.76% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-SAMBA-357390
  • published13 Mar 2018
  • 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 Ubuntu:16.04 samba to version 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.13 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba package and not the samba package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 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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