Alpine: libsmbclient, pam-winbind, multiple samba packages: security update to 4.6.1-r2 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400871

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Samba since version 3.5.0 and before 4.6.4, 4.5.10 and 4.4.14 is vulnerable to remote code execution
vulnerability, allowing a malicious client to upload a shared library to a writable share, and then cause
the server to load and execute it. (CVE-2017-7494)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400871

Version: Revision 1.32

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.9

Percentile: 99.36

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7494

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/25/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2017

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/20/2023

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Samba is_known_pipename() Arbitrary Module Load)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7494

BID: 98636

IAVA: 2017-A-0163-S

Detections

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