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CVE-2017-12163

Publication date 20 September 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.1 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
samba 17.10 artful
Fixed 2:4.6.7+dfsg-1ubuntu3
17.04 zesty
Fixed 2:4.5.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.17.04.7
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.11
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.14.04.12

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.1 · High
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3426-2
    • Samba vulnerabilities
    • 2 November 2017
    • USN-3426-1
    • Samba vulnerabilities
    • 21 September 2017

Other references