Medium
Security advisory
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
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1050
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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:CVE-2018-1050
Complete source record
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"references": [
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1860",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1883",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2612",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2613",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3056",
"https://help.ecostruxureit.com/display/public/UADCE725/Security+fixes+in+StruxureWare+Data+Center+Expert+v7.6.0",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00024.html",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00013.html",
"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201805-07",
"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180313-0001/",
"https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbns03834en_us",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3595-1/",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/3595-2/",
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