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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Samba vulnerabilities (USN-5822-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 170562

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5822-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled the bad password count logic. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass bad passwords lockouts. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 22.10.
 (CVE-2021-20251)

 Evgeny Legerov discovered that Samba incorrectly handled buffers in certain GSSAPI routines of Heimdal. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
 (CVE-2022-3437)

 Tom Tervoort discovered that Samba incorrectly used weak rc4-hmac Kerberos keys. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to elevate privileges. (CVE-2022-37966, CVE-2022-37967)

 It was discovered that Samba supported weak RC4/HMAC-MD5 in NetLogon Secure Channel. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to elevate privileges. (CVE-2022-38023)

 Greg Hudson discovered that Samba incorrectly handled PAC parsing. On 32-bit systems, a remote attacker could use this issue to escalate privileges, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-42898)

 Joseph Sutton discovered that Samba could be forced to issue rc4-hmac encrypted Kerberos tickets. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-45141)

 WARNING: The fixes included in these updates introduce several important behavior changes which may cause compatibility problems interacting with systems still expecting the former behavior. Please see the following upstream advisories for more information:

 https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2022-37966.html https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2022-37967.html https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2022-38023.html

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5822-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 170562

File Name: ubuntu_USN-5822-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2023

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-45141

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-vfs-modules, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-winbind, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-common-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:winbind, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-dsdb-modules, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python3-samba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:registry-tools, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-winbind, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient-dev

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/24/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-20251, CVE-2022-3437, CVE-2022-37966, CVE-2022-37967, CVE-2022-38023, CVE-2022-42898, CVE-2022-45141

IAVA: 2022-A-0447-S, 2022-A-0495-S, 2023-A-0004-S

USN: 5822-1