vulnerability

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
Nov 10, 2021
Added
Feb 19, 2022
Modified
Oct 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

amazon-linux-upgrade-samba
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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