CVE-2018-16841

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Samba from version 4.3.0 and before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7 and 4.9.3 are vulnerable to a denial of service. When configured to accept smart-card authentication, Samba's KDC will call talloc_free() twice on the same memory if the principal in a validly signed certificate does not match the principal in the AS-REQ. This is only possible after authentication with a trusted certificate. talloc is robust against further corruption from a double-free with talloc_free() and directly calls abort(), terminating the KDC process.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16841

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16841.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201811-22

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.9.3-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debianbullseyefixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debianforkyfixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debiansidfixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2
debian debiantrixiefixed2:4.9.2+dfsg-2

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.