vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-10918: NULL Pointer Dereference

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 22, 2018
Added
Aug 24, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the way samba checked database outputs from the LDB database layer. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash a samba server in an Active Directory Domain Controller configuration. Samba versions before 4.7.9 and 4.8.4 are vulnerable.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-samba
Title
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