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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.2

CVE-2018-10918 json

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the way samba checked database outputs from the LDB database layer.

published 2018-08-22 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-2972

cvss
5.2
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the way samba checked database outputs from the LDB database layer. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash a samba server in an Active Directory Domain Controller configuration. Samba versions before 4.7.9 and 4.8.4 are vulnerable.

Patch / fix

  • samba samba 4.7.9, 4.8.4
  • samba Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:4.8.4+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10918

  • samba Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10918

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • samba SLE Module for Basesystem 15, SLE High Availability Extension 15 4.7.8+git.86.94b6d10f7dd-4.15.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:2318-1

  • samba openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.14.6+git.182.2205d5224e3-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11365-1

  • samba Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +14 more 4.8.4-r0
  • samba Alpine 3.7 4.7.6-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2018-10918

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-10918 updated cvss 5.2

samba: DsCrackNames on a user without an SPN can trigger NULL-pointer de-reference

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 samba, samba3x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 samba, samba4, samba4-dc, samba-swat, samba4-libs, samba4-pidl, +17 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ctdb, samba, samba-dc, ctdb-tests, samba-libs, samba-pidl, +18 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 ctdb, samba, libnetapi, ctdb-tests, samba-libs, samba-pidl, +24 more Red Hat Storage 3 ctdb, samba, samba-dc, ctdb-tests, samba-libs, samba-pidl, +21 more Red Hat Virtualization 4 samba
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 5.2 CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • The Samba Team samba

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.