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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2023-5568 EUVD-2023-57867GHSA-x3c8-vcr7-5m4v

Samba: heap buffer overflow with freshness tokens in the heimdal kdc

Published Oct 24, 2023 · Updated Sep 2, 2025 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A heap-based Buffer Overflow flaw was discovered in Samba. It could allow a remote, authenticated attacker to exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Storage 3 — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 samba 2:4.19.2+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 samba 2:4.19.2+dfsg-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed samba 4.19.2+git.322.7e9201cef5-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13345-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 samba No fix yet —
Azure Linux 2 (CBL-Mariner) samba No fix yet —

Advisories 2

References