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Red Hat: CVE-2017-12151: Moderate: samba security update (RHSA-2017:2790)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 21, 2017
Added
Oct 4, 2017
Modified
Feb 19, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the way samba client before samba 4.4.16, samba 4.5.14 and samba 4.6.8 used encryption with the max protocol set as SMB3. The connection could lose the requirement for signing and encrypting to any DFS redirects, allowing an attacker to read or alter the contents of the connection via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Solutions

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