CVE-2026-58216

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

State
Published
Severity
5.3 Medium
Published
Jul 30, 2026
Updated
Jul 31, 2026
Reserved
Jun 29, 2026

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hredhat

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat
      Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat
        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
          Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
            Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
              Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat

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