CVE-2018-16852

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Samba from version 4.9.0 and before version 4.9.3 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer de-reference. During the processing of an DNS zone in the DNS management DCE/RPC server, the internal DNS server or the Samba DLZ plugin for BIND9, if the DSPROPERTY_ZONE_MASTER_SERVERS property or DSPROPERTY_ZONE_SCAVENGING_SERVERS property is set, the server will follow a NULL pointer and terminate. There is no further vulnerability associated with this issue, merely a denial of service.

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-2018-16852

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16852.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-22

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.9.3-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debianforkyfixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debiansidfixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debiantrixiefixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2

References

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