CVE-2016-0771: Samba

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The internal DNS server in Samba 4.x before 4.1.23, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, 4.3.x before 4.3.6, and 4.4.x before 4.4.0rc4, when an AD DC is configured, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory by uploading a crafted DNS TXT record.

Affected products

• Samba Samba: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; version 4.0.5 only; …

Published 2016-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.