Security Advisory

CVE-2026-58216

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-07-30 15:40:11
Last updated 2026-07-31 22:57:42
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.