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Medium 1 exploited CVE USN-4559-1 1 CVE

samba update

Published Sep 30, 2020 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Tom Tervoort discovered that the Netlogon protocol implemented by Samba
incorrectly handled the authentication scheme. A remote attacker could use
this issue to forge an authentication token and steal the credentials of
the domain admin.

While a previous security update fixed the issue by changing the "server
schannel" setting to default to "yes", instead of "auto", which forced a
secure netlogon channel, this update provides additional improvements.

For compatibility reasons with older devices, Samba now allows specifying
an insecure netlogon configuration per machine. See the following link for
examples: https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2020-1472.html

In addition, this update adds additional server checks for the protocol
attack in the client-specified challenge to provide some protection when
'server schannel = no/auto' and avoid the false-positive results when
running the proof-of-concept exploit.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS samba 2:4.3.11+dfsg-0ubuntu0.16.04.31
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS samba 2:4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.20
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS samba 2:4.11.6+dfsg-0ubuntu1.5

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-1472