CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-9640
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-10-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-18
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
A flaw was found in Samba, in the vfs_streams_xattr module, where uninitialized heap memory could be written into alternate data streams. This allows an authenticated user to read residual memory content that may include sensitive data, resulting in an information disclosure vulnerability.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-9640 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391698 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html www.samba.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/15/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/16/2 www.openwall.com
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/11/msg00027.html lists.debian.org