RHEL 8 : samba (RHSA-2021:1647)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 149679

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:1647 advisory.

Samba is an open-source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and the related Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, which allow PC-compatible machines to share files, printers, and various information.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: samba (4.13.3). (BZ#1878109)

Security Fix(es):

* samba: Netlogon elevation of privilege vulnerability (Zerologon) (CVE-2020-1472)

* samba: Missing handle permissions check in SMB1/2/3 ChangeNotify (CVE-2020-14318)

* samba: Unprivileged user can crash winbind (CVE-2020-14323)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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 affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2f08bd4b

http://www.nessus.org/u?862005a9

https://access.redhat.com/articles/5435971

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1647

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1818038

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869702

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872833

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1878109

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879822

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1888990

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1891685

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1892631

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1896736

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1898866

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1902198

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1904174

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924571

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1924615

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 149679

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-1647.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/19/2021

Updated: 9/10/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 10.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1472

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-14318

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient-devel, 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:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ctdb-tests, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-pidl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-samba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-samba-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winexe, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwbclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-client-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-test-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openchange, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-krb5-printing

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: 5/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2020

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 9/21/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-14318, CVE-2020-14323, CVE-2020-1472

CWE: 170, 266, 287

CISA-NCAS: AA22-011A

IAVA: 2020-A-0438-S, 2020-A-0508-S

RHSA: 2021:1647