CVE-2016-2110 Security feature bypass in n/a

Medium 5.9 Published Updated

Man-in-the-middle attackers can downgrade NTLMSSP authentication security by stripping encryption or signing flags, compromising LDAP communications.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2016-2110?

CVE-2016-2110 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 25 Apr 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The NTLMSSP authentication implementation in Samba 3.x and 4.x before 4.2.11, 4.3.x before 4.3.8, and 4.4.x before 4.4.2 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to perform protocol-downgrade attacks by modifying the client-server data stream to remove application-layer flags or encryption settings, as demonstrated by clearing the NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_SEAL or NTLMSSP_NEGOTIATE_SIGN option to disrupt LDAP security.

Weakness: CWE-254

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2110?

It affects 2 products.

Linux distribution packages (10)
samba SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12All versions4.2.4-18.20.1
samba SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1All versions4.2.4-19.1
samba SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12All versions4.2.4-18.20.1
samba SUSE:Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12 SP1All versions4.2.4-19.1
samba SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12All versions4.2.4-18.20.1
samba SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1All versions4.2.4-19.1
samba SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12All versions4.2.4-18.20.1
samba SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1All versions4.2.4-19.1
samba SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12All versions4.2.4-18.20.1
samba SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1All versions4.2.4-19.1

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Samba Samba.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2110?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-2110 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2110 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as AZL-44409, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-2110, ECHO-a2a0-0946-bc5a, GHSA-59r3-hh3x-g9v9, SUSE-RU-2016:1478-1, SUSE-RU-2016:1479-1 and 1 more.

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