CVE-2016-2119

Publication date 7 July 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

libcli/smb/smbXcli_base.c in Samba 4.x before 4.2.14, 4.3.x before 4.3.11, and 4.4.x before 4.4.5 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass a client-signing protection mechanism, and consequently spoof SMB2 and SMB3 servers, via the (1) SMB2_SESSION_FLAG_IS_GUEST or (2) SMB2_SESSION_FLAG_IS_NULL flag.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
samba	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
samba4	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

sbeattie

workaround in upstream report

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3092-1
Samba vulnerability
28 September 2016