High severity7.4NVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-12151
CVE-2017-12151
Description
A flaw was found in the way samba client before samba 4.4.16, samba 4.5.14 and samba 4.6.8 used encryption with the max protocol set as SMB3. The connection could lose the requirement for signing and encrypting to any DFS redirects, allowing an attacker to read or alter the contents of the connection via a man-in-the-middle attack.
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Affected products
20- Range: <4.4.16, <4.5.14, <4.6.8
- osv-coords18 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/samba&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%205pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Availability%20Extension%2012pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Availability%20Extension%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Availability%20Extension%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/samba&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%206
< 4.14.6+git.182.2205d5224e3-1.1+ 17 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.14.6+git.182.2205d5224e3-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.6.9+git.59.c2cff9cea4c-3.17.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.2-38.11.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.6.7+git.51.327af8d0a11-3.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.4-18.44.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.2-38.11.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.6.7+git.51.327af8d0a11-3.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.4-28.19.3
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.2-38.11.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.6.7+git.51.327af8d0a11-3.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.4-18.44.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.2-38.11.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.4-28.19.3
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.2-38.11.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.6.7+git.51.327af8d0a11-3.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.4.2-38.11.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.6.7+git.51.327af8d0a11-3.12.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.4-28.19.3
- Range: 4.4.16
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
9- www.securityfocus.com/bid/100917nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1039401nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2790nvdThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2858nvdThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20170921-0001/nvdThird Party Advisory
- support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/displaynvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3983nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-12151.htmlnvdMitigationVendor Advisory
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