vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-12150: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2017-909)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 21, 2017
Added
Oct 13, 2017
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

It was found that samba before 4.4.16, 4.5.x before 4.5.14, and 4.6.x before 4.6.8 did not enforce "SMB signing" when certain configuration options were enabled. A remote attacker could launch a man-in-the-middle attack and retrieve information in plain-text.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-samba
Title
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