The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6238-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled Winbind NTLM authentication responses. An attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-2127)

    Andreas Schneider discovered that Samba incorrectly enforced SMB2 packet signing. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to obtain or modify sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04.
    (CVE-2023-3347)

    Florent Saudel and Arnaud Gatignolof discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain Spotlight requests.
    A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to consume resources, leading to a denial     of service. (CVE-2023-34966, CVE-2023-34967)

    Ralph Boehme and Stefan Metzmacher discovered that Samba incorrectly handled paths returned by Spotlight     requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.
    (CVE-2023-34968)

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.

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : Samba vulnerabilities (USN-6238-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178487

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