vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-12163: Security patch for samba (ALAS-2017-909)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) | Sep 21, 2017 | Oct 13, 2017 | Mar 2, 2020 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 21, 2017
Added
Oct 13, 2017
Modified
Mar 2, 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
amazon-linux-upgrade-samba
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