vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-12151: Channel Accessible by Non-Endpoint

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jul 27, 2018
Added
Jul 27, 2018
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the way samba client before samba 4.4.16, samba 4.5.14 and samba 4.6.8 used encryption with the max protocol set as SMB3. The connection could lose the requirement for signing and encrypting to any DFS redirects, allowing an attacker to read or alter the contents of the connection via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-samba
Title
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