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Debian Samba Important DoS and Privilege Escalation DSA-6401-1

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Calendar Grey July 28, 2026
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Samba vulnerabilities fixed in Debian DSA-6401-1, addressing denial of service, privilege escalation, and more.
Debian issued advisory DSA-6401-1 on July 28, 2026, regarding multiple vulnerabilities in Samba that could lead to denial of service, domain takeover, information disclosure, or pr...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in
version 2:4.22.10+dfsg-0+deb13u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.

For the detailed security status of samba please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/samba

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: samba
CVE ID: CVE-2026-6949 CVE-2026-58216 CVE-2026-58218 CVE-2026-58221

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