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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-2124: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2022-1564)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-2124: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2022-1564)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/10/2021
Created
02/24/2022
Added
02/19/2022
Modified
10/14/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-samba

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