CVE-2018-16852

Name	CVE-2018-16852
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
samba (PTS)	bullseye (security), bullseye	2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u6	fixed
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	2:4.17.12+dfsg-0+deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	2:4.21.4+dfsg-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
samba	source	jessie	(not affected)
samba	source	stretch	(not affected)
samba	source	(unstable)	2:4.9.2+dfsg-2

Notes

[stretch] - samba <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[jessie] - samba <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2018-16852.html