samba-3.6.23-51.AXS4

Samba is an open-source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and the related Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, which allow PC-compatible machines to share files, printers, and various information.

Security Fix(es):

* samba: Null pointer indirection in printer server process (CVE-2018-1050)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Asianux would like to thank the Samba project for reporting this issue.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Asianux Server 4.10 Release Notes and Asianux Server 4.10 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

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.