CVE-2016-2111

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-254

Description

The NETLOGON service 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, when a domain controller is configured, allows remote attackers to spoof the computer name of a secure channel's endpoint, and obtain sensitive session information, by running a crafted application and leveraging the ability to sniff network traffic, a related issue to CVE-2015-0005.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 15.10, 16.04
Samba: 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.2-a, 3.0.2a, 3.0.3 (+242)

References

http://badlock.org/
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182185.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182272.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/182288.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00022.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00023.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00042.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00046.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00047.html

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