RHEL 4 / 5 : samba (RHSA-2007:0354)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 25239

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2007:0354 advisory.

- samba heap overflows (CVE-2007-2446)

- samba code injection (CVE-2007-2447)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL samba package based on the guidance in RHSA-2007:0354.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2b63c026

http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-2446.html

http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2007-2447.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239429

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=239774

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0354

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 25239

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0354.nasl

Version: 1.31

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2007

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

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-2007-2446

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-2447

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:2.1, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2007

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Samba "username map script" Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2446, CVE-2007-2447

BID: 23972, 23973, 24195, 24196, 24197, 24198

RHSA: 2007:0354