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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1050

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.

Products
samba
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2:4.7.4+dfsg-2
CVEs
CVE-2018-1050
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 00:04 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1050

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Mar 2018, 16:29 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1050

samba

Fixed versions: 2:4.7.4+dfsg-2

samba

Fixed versions: 2:4.7.4+dfsg-2

samba

Fixed versions: 2:4.7.4+dfsg-2

Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1050",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1050",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-23T18:02:56.278649514Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2018-1050"
      ],
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        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1050"
      ]
    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 419859,
  "published_at": "2018-03-13T16:29:00.21+00:00"
}