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CVE-2021-23192

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—

A flaw was found in the way samba implemented DCE/RPC. If a client to a Samba server sent a very large DCE/RPC request, and chose to fragment it, an attacker could replace later fragments with their own data, bypassing the signature requirements.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Samba — Samba

CWEs

References

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