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Vulnerability IntelligenceCVE-2015-5296

CVE-2015-5296

MEDIUM5.4

Samba 3

Published Dec 29, 2015

Modified 1 years ago

Details

Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3 supports connections that are encrypted but unsigned, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct encrypted-to-unencrypted downgrade attacks by modifying the client-server data stream, related to clidfs.c, libsmb_server.c, and smbXcli_base.c.

References(26)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174076.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174391.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00019.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00020.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00032.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00033.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00002.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00017.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00042.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00047.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00048.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3433

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79732

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034493

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-2

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290292

https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1ba49b8f389eda3414b14410c7fbcb4041ca06b1

https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a819d2b440aafa3138d95ff6e8b824da885a70e9

https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d724f835acb9f4886c0001af32cd325dbbf1f895

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05115993

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-47

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5296

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

5.4

Exploitability

Attack Vector

NetworkAV:N

Attack Complexity

HighAC:H

Privileges Required

NonePR:N

User Interaction

NoneUI:N

Scope

Scope

ChangedS:C

Impact

Confidentiality

LowC:L

Integrity

LowI:L

Availability

NoneA:N

5.4/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedDec 29, 2015

ModifiedAug 6, 2024

CVE-2015-5296 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence