Alpine: libsmbclient, pam-winbind, multiple samba packages: security update to 3.6.3-r0 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 401296

Description

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

- The RPC code generator in Samba 3.x before 3.4.16, 3.5.x before 3.5.14, and 3.6.x before 3.6.4 does not
implement validation of an array length in a manner consistent with validation of array memory allocation,
which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPC call. (CVE-2012-1182)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 401296

Version: Revision 1.24

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: 99.42

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-2012-1182

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: 4/11/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/10/2012

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Samba SetInformationPolicy AuditEventsInfo Heap Overflow)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1182

BID: 52973

IAVB: 2012-B-0045-S

Detections

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