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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-23192: Important: samba security update (ALSA-2021-5082)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-23192: Important: samba security update (ALSA-2021-5082)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/02/2022
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

A flaw was found in the way samba implemented DCE/RPC. If a client to a Samba server sent a very large DCE/RPC request, and chose to fragment it, an attacker could replace later fragments with their own data, bypassing the signature requirements.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-libsmbclient-devel
  • alma-upgrade-libwbclient-devel
  • alma-upgrade-samba-devel
  • alma-upgrade-samba-vfs-iouring

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