CVE-2016-2112

Public on 2016-04-13
Modified on 2016-04-13
Description

It was found that Samba's LDAP implementation did not enforce integrity protection for LDAP connections. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to downgrade LDAP connections to use no integrity protection, allowing them to hijack such connections.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 samba 2016-04-13 ALAS-2016-686

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2016-2112 Mitre: CVE-2016-2112