vulnerability
Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2018-16852)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Nov 28, 2018 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 28, 2018
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
A NULL pointer de-reference issue has been found in samba from 4.9.0 up to and including 4.9.2, where a user able to create or modify dnsZone objects can crash the Samba AD DC's DNS management RPC server, DNS server or BIND9 when using Samba's DLZ plugin
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2018-16852
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-16852
- URL-http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106024
- URL-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16852
- URL-https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/patches/security/samba-4.9.2-security-2018-11-27.patch
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-22
- URL-https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-52
- URL-https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0001/
- URL-https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-16852.html
- CWE-476
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