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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-12163: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2017-909)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-12163: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2017-909)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/21/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/13/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

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)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-samba

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