Samba Samba
CVE-2026-58224
A flaw was found in Samba's CTDB, the clustered database service used by Samba. Insufficient integrity validation of received CTDB protocol packets allows malformed packets containing invalid field lengths, improperly terminated strings, or inconsistent packet sizes to be processed without adequate bounds checking. A remote attacker with access to the CTDB private network may trigger a denial of service through process crashes or excessive memory consumption and, in limited cases, disclose adjacent memory contents.
What this means for your business
- It affects Samba. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- An attacker can use it from inside the same network, without a login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.3% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 21% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Samba, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-353
- Assigned by
- secalert@redhat.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-14
- Last modified
- 2026-09-23
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Samba Samba- 4.2.0
- Redhat Enterprise Linux6.0, 7.0
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.