Race Condition The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package samba-pidl  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-SAMBAPIDL-3339362
  • published4 Mar 2023
  • disclosed5 Feb 2021

Introduced: 5 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-20251  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream samba-pidl package and not the samba-pidl package as distributed by RHEL.

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.