High
Security advisory
The Samba vfs_fruit module uses extended file attributes (EA, xattr) to provide "...enhanced compatibility with Apple SMB clients and interoperability with a Netatalk 3 AFP fileserver." Samba versions prior to 4.13.17, 4.14.12 and 4.15.5 with vfs_fruit configured allow out-of-bounds heap read and write via specially crafted extended file attributes. A remote attacker with write access to extended file attributes can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of smbd, typically root.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-44142
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Samba vfs_fruit module uses extended file attributes (EA, xattr) to provide "...enhanced compatibility with Apple SMB clients and interoperability with a Netatalk 3 AFP fileserver." Samba versions prior to 4.13.17, 4.14.12 and 4.15.5 with vfs_fruit configured allow out-of-bounds heap read and write via specially crafted extended file attributes. A remote attacker with write access to extended file attributes can execute arbitrary code with the privileges of smbd, typically root.
osv:CVE-2021-44142
Complete source record
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},
{
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],
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{
"range": [
{
"introduced": "4.0"
},
{
"last_affected": "4.0"
}
],
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}
]
}
]
}
},
"related_cves": [
{
"value": "CVE-2021-44142",
"evidence": "/id"
}
],
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"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 433895,
"published_at": "2022-02-21T15:15:07.38+00:00"
}