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RHEL 3 : samba (RHSA-2004:064)

high Nessus Plugin ID 12467

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated Samba packages that fix a security vulnerability are now available.

Samba provides file and printer sharing services to SMB/CIFS clients.

The Samba team discovered an issue that affects version 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 of Samba. If an account for a user is created, but marked as disabled using the mksmbpasswd script, it is possible for Samba to overwrite the user's password with the contents of an uninitialized buffer. This might lead to a disabled account becoming enabled with a password that could be guessed by an attacker.

Although this is likely to be a low risk issue for most Samba users, we have provided updated packages, which contain a backported patch correcting this issue.

Red Hat would like to thank the Samba team for reporting this issue and providing us with a patch.

Note: Due to a packaging error in samba-3.0.0-14.3E, the winbind daemon is not automatically restarted when the Samba package is upgraded. After up2date has installed the samba-3.0.2-4.3E packages, you must run '/sbin/service winbind condrestart' as root to restart the winbind daemon.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2004-0082

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004:064

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 12467

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2004-064.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-swat, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/21/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0082

RHSA: 2004:064