SUSE SLES11 Security Update : samba (SUSE-SU-2016:0905-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 90262

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for samba fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

- CVE-2015-7560: Getting and setting Windows ACLs on symlinks can change permissions on link target;
(bso#11648); (bsc#968222).

Bugs fixed :

- Fix leaking memory in libsmbclient: Add missing talloc stackframe; (bso#11177); (bsc#967017).

- Ensure samlogon fallback requests are rerouted after kerberos failure; (bsc#953382).

- Ensure attempt to ssh into locked account triggers 'Your account is disabled.....' to the console; (bsc#953382).

- Make the winbind package depend on the matching libwbclient version and vice versa; (bsc#936909).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP2-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch slessp2-samba-12477=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp2-samba-12477=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 90262

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0905-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/1/2016

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ldapsmb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldb1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtalloc2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtdb1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtevent0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-krb-printing, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-winbind, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7560

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