vulnerability
Samba CVE-2018-1050: Denial of Service Attack on external print server
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 13, 2018 | Mar 13, 2018 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 13, 2018
Added
Mar 13, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
Description
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.
Solutions
samba-upgrade-4_5_16samba-upgrade-4_6_14samba-upgrade-4_7_6
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