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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-2124): Samba vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 10, 2021
Added
Nov 12, 2021
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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

ubuntu-upgrade-samba
Title
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