Bug 1929800 (CVE-2021-20251) - CVE-2021-20251 samba: Race condition in the bad password lockout code
Summary: CVE-2021-20251 samba: Race condition in the bad password lockout code
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2021-20251
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2175286
Blocks: 1926290 2175287
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Reported: 2021-02-17 16:50 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2023-03-14 12:53 UTC (History)
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A flaw was found in samba. A race condition in the password lockout code may lead to the risk of brute force attacks being successful if special conditions are met.
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Last Closed: 2023-03-14 12:53:47 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-02-17 16:50:21 UTC 
A flaw was found in samba. A race condition in the password lockout code may lead to the risk of brute force attacks being sucessful if special conditions are met.

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14611
Comment 5 Pedro Sampaio 2023-03-03 19:12:54 UTC 
Created samba tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2175286]
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