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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-12163): Samba vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-12163): Samba vulnerabilities

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

  • ubuntu-upgrade-samba

References

  • USN-3426-1
  • USN-3426-2
  • DSA-3983
  • CVE-2017-12163

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