Samba CTDB Protocol Packet Bounds Checking Flaw (CVE-2026-58224)
CVE-2026-58224 Published on August 14, 2026
Samba: ctdb fails to do integrity checking of received packets
A flaw was found in Samba's CTDB, the clustered database service used by Samba. Insufficient integrity validation of received CTDB protocol packets allows malformed packets containing invalid field lengths, improperly terminated strings, or inconsistent packet sizes to be processed without adequate bounds checking. A remote attacker with access to the CTDB private network may trigger a denial of service through process crashes or excessive memory consumption and, in limited cases, disclose adjacent memory contents.
Vulnerability Analysis
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public. 8 days later.
Weakness Type
Missing Support for Integrity Check
The software uses a transmission protocol that does not include a mechanism for verifying the integrity of the data during transmission, such as a checksum. If integrity check values or "checksums" are omitted from a protocol, there is no way of determining if data has been corrupted in transmission. The lack of checksum functionality in a protocol removes the first application-level check of data that can be used. The end-to-end philosophy of checks states that integrity checks should be performed at the lowest level that they can be completely implemented. Excluding further sanity checks and input validation performed by applications, the protocol's checksum is the most important level of checksum, since it can be performed more completely than at any previous level and takes into account entire messages, as opposed to single packets.
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