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...

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...