RHEL 7 : samba (RHSA-2014:0867)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76903

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2014:0867 advisory.

- samba: Uninitialized memory exposure (CVE-2014-0178)

- samba: nmbd denial of service (CVE-2014-0244)

- samba: smbd unicode path names denial of service (CVE-2014-3493)

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-2014:0867.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?aa78f36c

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2014-0244

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2014-0178

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2014-3493

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:0867

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097815

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1101992

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108748

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76903

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2014-0867.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/30/2014

Updated: 4/24/2024

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: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-0178

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:N/A:H

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3493

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwbclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwbclient-devel, 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-dc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-dc-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-pidl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-test-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-vfs-glusterfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-krb5-locator, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-modules, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0178, CVE-2014-0244, CVE-2014-3493

BID: 67686, 68148, 68150

CWE: 201, 393

RHSA: 2014:0867