MiracleLinux 9 : samba-4.23.5-10.el9_8 (AXSA:2026-1321:09)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 328877

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2026-1321:09 advisory.

* samba: Missing access check on reparse point operations (CVE-2026-1933)
* samba: vfs_worm does not block directory modification (CVE-2026-2340)
* samba: group policy certificate enrollment uses without validation (CVE-2026-3012)
* samba: Samba: Remote Code Execution in printing subsystem via unescaped job description (CVE-2026-4480)
* ngtcp2: ngtcp2: Denial of service via stack buffer overflow during QUIC handshake (CVE-2026-40170)
* samba: Remote Code Execution in SAMR (CVE-2026-4408)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 328877

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2026-1321.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Miracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/22/2026

Updated: 7/22/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.7

Percentile: 99.05

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-4480

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:miracle:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:ldb-tools, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libldb-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libldb, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libnetapi-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libnetapi, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libsmbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libwbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:libwbclient, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python3-ldb, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python3-samba-dc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python3-samba-test, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:python3-samba, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-client-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-common-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-common-tools, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-dc-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-dcerpc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-gpupdate, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-krb5-printing, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-ldb-ldap-modules, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-pidl, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-test-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-test, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-tools, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-usershares, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-vfs-iouring, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-winbind-clients, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-winbind-krb5-locator, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-winbind-modules, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba-winexe, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-1933, CVE-2026-2340, CVE-2026-3012, CVE-2026-40170, CVE-2026-4408, CVE-2026-4480

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