openSUSE Security Update : samba (openSUSE-SU-2012:0508-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 74601

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Samba upgrade to version 3.6.3 fixes the following security issue :

- PIDL based autogenerated code allows overwriting beyond of allocated array. Remove attackers could exploit that to execute arbitrary code as root (CVE-2012-1182, bso#8815, bnc#752797)

Please see /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/WHATSNEW.txt from the samba-doc package or the package change log (rpm -q --changelog samba) for more details of the version update.

Solution

Update the affected samba packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=752797

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-04/msg00036.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 74601

File Name: openSUSE-2012-224.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ldapsmb, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libldb-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libldb1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libldb1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libldb1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libldb1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libnetapi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libnetapi0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libnetapi0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbclient0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbclient0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbclient0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbsharemodes-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbsharemodes0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbsharemodes0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtalloc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtalloc2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtalloc2-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtalloc2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtalloc2-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtdb-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtdb1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtdb1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtdb1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtdb1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtevent-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtevent0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtevent0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtevent0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtevent0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwbclient0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwbclient0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwbclient0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-client-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-client-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-krb-printing, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-krb-printing-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-winbind-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-winbind-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-winbind-debuginfo-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/15/2012

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Samba SetInformationPolicy AuditEventsInfo Heap Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1182