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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : samba regression (USN-544-2)
high Nessus Plugin ID 28288
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
USN-544-1 fixed two vulnerabilities in Samba. Fixes for CVE-2007-5398 are unchanged, but the upstream changes for CVE-2007-4572 introduced a regression in all releases which caused Linux smbfs mounts to fail.Additionally, Dapper and Edgy included an incomplete patch which caused configurations using NetBIOS to fail. A proper fix for these regressions does not exist at this time, and so the patch addressing CVE-2007-4572 has been removed. This vulnerability is believed to be an unexploitable denial of service, but a future update will address this issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Samba developers discovered that nmbd could be made to overrun a buffer during the processing of GETDC logon server requests. When samba is configured as a Primary or Backup Domain Controller, a remote attacker could send malicious logon requests and possibly cause a denial of service. (CVE-2007-4572)
Alin Rad Pop of Secunia Research discovered that nmbd did not properly check the length of netbios packets. When samba is configured as a WINS server, a remote attacker could send multiple crafted requests resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. (CVE-2007-5398).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 28288
File Name: ubuntu_USN-544-2.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 11/20/2007
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9.3
Temporal Score: 6.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-smbpass, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-samba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python2.4-samba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-doc-pdf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smbfs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:swat, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:winbind
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/16/2007
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2007-4572, CVE-2007-5398
BID: 26454