Samba is a suite of programs for Linux and Unix to interoperate with Windows.
Security Fix(es):
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 have this triggered not only by root, but by a non-root user holding a narrow sudo delegation to run commands as that account, causing ownership of / to change and resulting in severe denial of service (SSH, sudo, and package-manager failures). The change does not grant write access to / (which ships with restrictive 0555 permissions on RHEL), so the impact is availability loss rather than further privilege escalation.(CVE-2026-15779)
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"severity": "Medium"
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