4.3Medium
CVE-2025-9640
A flaw was found in Samba, in the vfs_streams_xattr module, where uninitialized heap memory could be written into alternate data streams. This allows an authenticated user to read residual memory content that may include sensitive data, resulting in an information disclosure vulnerability.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 4.3 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N- Weakness
- CWE-908
- Assigned by
- secalert@redhat.com
Dates
- Published
- 2025-10-15
- Last modified
- 2026-09-01
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9640
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391698
- https://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/15/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/16/2
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00027.html