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GHSA-VC9H-GM8G-6J4X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-30 18:31 – Updated: 2026-07-30 18:31

Details

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in Samba's Kerberos Key Distribution Center's (KDC) password change (kpasswd) service. When processing malformed ASN.1-encoded Kerberos password change request, Samba server miscalculates the structure size and attempts to read up to six bytes beyond the end of the allocated buffer. While this out-of-bounds read typically results in a harmless decryption failure, if the read hits unmapped memory, it causes the KDC process to crash. An authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted kpasswd request containing malformed ASN.1 data to trigger the out-of-bounds read, which may cause the KDC process to terminate, resulting in a denial of service.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2026-58216 (GCVE-0-2026-58216)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-30 15:40 – Updated: 2026-07-31 22:57

Title

Samba: kpasswd service: kpasswd packet that contains malformed asn.1 might cause the server to access 6 bytes of unallocated memory leading server to crash

Summary

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-31 22:57 UTC

CWE

CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-58216	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502721	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16087
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2026-582…

Impacted products

6 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4	cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4

Date Public

2026-07-28 10:00

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec) (Talence Security) for reporting this issue.

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