USN-8621-1: Samba vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Samba's pamwinbind incorrectly handled home directory ownership when mkhomedir was enabled. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service by triggering a change in ownership of the root directory. CVE-2026-15779 Arjun Basnet, Douglas Bagnall, a...

PT-2026-65627

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 th...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-15779

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in samba's pamwinbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pamwinbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a...

SUSE CVE-2026-15779

A flaw was found in samba's pamwinbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pamwinbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory a common default for system accounts can...

CVE-2026-15779

A flaw was found in samba's pamwinbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pamwinbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory a common default for system accounts can...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-15779

A flaw was found in samba's pamwinbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pamwinbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory a common default for system accounts can...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-15779

A flaw was found in samba's pamwinbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pamwinbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory a common default for system accounts can...

CVE-2026-15779

A flaw was found in samba's pamwinbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pamwinbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory a common default for system accounts can...

CVE-2026-15779

A flaw was found in samba's pamwinbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pamwinbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory a common default for system accounts can...

CVE-2026-15779 Samba-winbind: samba: pam_winbind mkhomedir chowns critical system paths without validation

A flaw was found in samba's pamwinbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pamwinbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory a common default for system accounts can...

CVE-2026-15779

A flaw was found in samba's pamwinbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pamwinbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory a common default for system accounts can...

CVE-2026-15779

Summary: CVE-2026-15779 concerns Samba’s pam_winbind when mkhomedir is enabled. pam_winbind chowns the target account’s home directory without validating that the path is not a critical system directory like “/”. On systems where / is a user home (a common default for system accounts), this can b...

CVE-2026-15779

A flaw was found in samba's pamwinbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pamwinbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory a common default for system accounts can...

CVE-2026-15779 Samba-winbind: samba: pam_winbind mkhomedir chowns critical system paths without validation

A flaw was found in samba's pamwinbind. When mkhomedir is enabled, pamwinbind chowns the target account's home directory without validating the path is not a critical system directory such as /. On affected systems, accounts with / as their home directory a common default for system accounts can...

MiracleLinux 8 : oddjob-0.34.5-3.el8 (AXSA:2021-1235:01)

The remote MiracleLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2021-1235:01 advisory. oddjob: race condition in oddjobselinuxmkdir function in mkhomedir.c can lead to symlink attack CVE-2020-10737 Tenable has extracted the preceding descriptio...

TencentOS Server 3: oddjob (TSSA-2022:0053)

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 3 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2022:0053 advisory. Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:...

EUVD-2020-3161

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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-10737

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A race condition was found in the mkhomedir tool shipped with the oddjob package in versions before 0.34.5 and 0.34.6 wherein, during the home creation, mkhomed...

SUSE CVE-2020-10737

A race condition was found in the mkhomedir tool shipped with the oddjob package in versions before 0.34.5 and 0.34.6 wherein, during the home creation, mkhomedir copies the /etc/skel directory into the newly created home and changes its ownership to the home's user without properly checking the...

USN-5169-1 oddjob vulnerability

Matthias Gerstner discovered that there was a race condition in the mkhomedir tool shipped with the oddjob package. An authenticated attacker could use this to setup a symlink attack and change permissions on files on the host filesystem...