Samba has issuedsoftware updatesto address multiple security vulnerabilities that, if successfully exploited, could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with the highest privileges on affected installations. Chief among them isCVE-2021-44142, whichimpactsall versions of Samba before 4.13.17 and concerns anout-of-boundsheap read/write vulnerability in the VFS module “vfs_fruit”