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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-12163: samba Multiple vulnerabilities

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-12163: samba Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/25/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/26/2017
Modified
02/14/2023

Description

An information leak flaw was found in the way SMB1 protocol was implemented by Samba before 4.4.16, 4.5.x before 4.5.14, and 4.6.x before 4.6.8. A malicious client could use this flaw to dump server memory contents to a file on the samba share or to a shared printer, though the exact area of server memory cannot be controlled by the attacker.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-samba

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