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CVE-2015-5296 Detail

Description

Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.1.22, 4.2.x before 4.2.7, and 4.3.x before 4.3.3 supports connections that are encrypted but unsigned, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to conduct encrypted-to-unencrypted downgrade attacks by modifying the client-server data stream, related to clidfs.c, libsmb_server.c, and smbXcli_base.c.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174076.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174391.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00019.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00020.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00032.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00033.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00002.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00017.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00042.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00047.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00048.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3433 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2016-2867206.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79732 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034493 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2855-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1290292 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1ba49b8f389eda3414b14410c7fbcb4041ca06b1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a819d2b440aafa3138d95ff6e8b824da885a70e9 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d724f835acb9f4886c0001af32cd325dbbf1f895 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05115993 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-47 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2015-5296.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-5296
NVD Published Date:
12/29/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.