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vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-2125: Improper Authentication

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 31, 2018
Added
Oct 31, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

It was found that Samba before versions 4.5.3, 4.4.8, 4.3.13 always requested forwardable tickets when using Kerberos authentication. A service to which Samba authenticated using Kerberos could subsequently use the ticket to impersonate Samba to other services or domain users.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-samba
Title
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