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Samba CVE-2018-1050: Denial of Service Attack on external print server

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Samba CVE-2018-1050: Denial of Service Attack on external print server

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/13/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/13/2018
Modified
09/11/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • samba-upgrade-4_5_16
  • samba-upgrade-4_6_14
  • samba-upgrade-4_7_6

References

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