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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-2124: Improper Authentication

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-2124: Improper Authentication

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/18/2022
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
10/02/2024

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(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-samba

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