High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-23192
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:15 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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