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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-23192

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:15 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-23192

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Mar 2022, 23:15 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2021-23192
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N"
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:15.919210425Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202309-06",
        "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-23192",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2019666",
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      ],
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429238,
  "published_at": "2022-03-02T23:15:08.403+00:00"
}