A man-in-the-middle vulnerability was found in the way "connection signing" was implemented by Samba. A remote attacker could use this flaw to downgrade an existing Samba client connection and force the use of plain text.
Find out more about CVE-2015-5296 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 5.8 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | None |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Gluster 3 Samba on RHEL-7 (samba) | RHSA-2016:0016 | 2016-01-08 |
| Red Hat Gluster 3 Samba on RHEL-6 (samba) | RHSA-2016:0015 | 2016-01-08 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (samba4) | RHSA-2016:0010 | 2016-01-07 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (samba) | RHSA-2016:0011 | 2016-01-07 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (samba) | RHSA-2016:0006 | 2016-01-08 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | samba | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | samba3x | Will not fix |
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