Debian DLA-1754-1 : samba security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 123959

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Various vulnerabilities were discovered in Samba, SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server/client for Unix

CVE-2017-9461

smbd in Samba had a denial of service vulnerability (fd_open_atomic infinite loop with high CPU usage and memory consumption) due to wrongly handling dangling symlinks.

CVE-2018-1050

Samba was vulnerable to a denial of service attack when the RPC spoolss service was configured to be run as an external daemon.
Missing input sanitization checks on some of the input parameters to spoolss RPC calls could have caused the print spooler service to crash.

CVE-2018-1057

On a Samba 4 AD DC the LDAP server of Samba incorrectly validated permissions to modify passwords over LDAP allowing authenticated users to change any other users' passwords, including administrative users and privileged service accounts (eg Domain Controllers).

Thanks to the Ubuntu security team for having backported the rather invasive changeset to Samba in Ubuntu 14.04 (which we could use to patch Samba in Debian jessie LTS).

CVE-2019-3880

A flaw was found in the way Samba implemented an RPC endpoint emulating the Windows registry service API. An unprivileged attacker could have used this flaw to create a new registry hive file anywhere they had unix permissions which could have lead to creation of a new file in the Samba share.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 2:4.2.14+dfsg-0+deb8u12.

We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 123959

File Name: debian_DLA-1754.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 4/10/2019

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1057

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss-winbind, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-smbpass, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-winbind, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libparse-pidl-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbsharemodes-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbsharemodes0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-samba, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:registry-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-dsdb-modules, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-vfs-modules, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:smbclient, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:winbind, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/9/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9461, CVE-2018-1050, CVE-2018-1057, CVE-2019-3880

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