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Alma Linux: CVE-2016-2124: Important: samba security update (ALSA-2021-5082)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Published

Feb 18, 2022

Added

May 4, 2022

Modified

Mar 31, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the way samba implemented SMB1 authentication. An attacker could use this flaw to retrieve the plaintext password sent over the wire even if Kerberos authentication was required.

Solutions

alma-upgrade-libsmbclient-develalma-upgrade-libwbclient-develalma-upgrade-samba-develalma-upgrade-samba-vfs-iouring

References

CVE-2016-2124
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-2124
CWE-287
EUVD-EUVD-2016-3227
https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2021-5082.html
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-3227

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