NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting samba package, versions [,4.5.16)[4.6.0, 4.6.14)[4.7.0, 4.7.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.95% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SAMBA-2370494
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Mar 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade samba to version 4.5.16, 4.6.14, 4.7.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. 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.

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