ubuntu-cve-2021-23192
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2021-11-09 00:00
Modified
2026-04-22 07:39
Summary
Details
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
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"name": "samba",
"purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/samba@2:4.13.14+dfsg-0ubuntu1?arch=source\u0026distro=jammy"
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],
"aliases": [],
"details": "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.",
"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23192",
"modified": "2026-04-22T07:39:55Z",
"published": "2021-11-09T00:00:00Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-23192"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2021-23192.html"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.13.14.html"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5142-1"
},
{
"type": "REPORT",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23192"
}
],
"related": [
"USN-5142-1"
],
"schema_version": "1.7.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "medium",
"type": "Ubuntu"
}
],
"upstream": [
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]
}
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