CVE-2018-1050

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1050

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1050.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201803-10

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.7.6-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:4.7.4+dfsg-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2:4.7.4+dfsg-2
debian debianforkyfixed2:4.7.4+dfsg-2
debian debiansidfixed2:4.7.4+dfsg-2
debian debiantrixiefixed2:4.7.4+dfsg-2

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.