The remote Debian 12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5477 advisory.

  - An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in Samba due to insufficient length checks in     winbindd_pam_auth_crap.c. When performing NTLM authentication, the client replies to cryptographic     challenges back to the server. These replies have variable lengths, and Winbind fails to check the lan     manager response length. When Winbind is used for NTLM authentication, a maliciously crafted request can     trigger an out-of-bounds read in Winbind, possibly resulting in a crash. (CVE-2022-2127)

  - A vulnerability was found in Samba's SMB2 packet signing mechanism. The SMB2 packet signing is not     enforced if an admin configured server signing = required or for SMB2 connections to Domain Controllers     where SMB2 packet signing is mandatory. This flaw allows an attacker to perform attacks, such as a man-in-     the-middle attack, by intercepting the network traffic and modifying the SMB2 messages between client and     server, affecting the integrity of the data. (CVE-2023-3347)

  - An infinite loop vulnerability was found in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight. When parsing     Spotlight mdssvc RPC packets sent by the client, the core unmarshalling function sl_unpack_loop() did not     validate a field in the network packet that contains the count of elements in an array-like structure. By     passing 0 as the count value, the attacked function will run in an endless loop consuming 100% CPU. This     flaw allows an attacker to issue a malformed RPC request, triggering an infinite loop, resulting in a     denial of service condition. (CVE-2023-34966)

  - A Type Confusion vulnerability was found in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight. When parsing     Spotlight mdssvc RPC packets, one encoded data structure is a key-value style dictionary where the keys     are character strings, and the values can be any of the supported types in the mdssvc protocol. Due to a     lack of type checking in callers of the dalloc_value_for_key() function, which returns the object     associated with a key, a caller may trigger a crash in talloc_get_size() when talloc detects that the     passed-in pointer is not a valid talloc pointer. With an RPC worker process shared among multiple client     connections, a malicious client or attacker can trigger a process crash in a shared RPC mdssvc worker     process, affecting all other clients this worker serves. (CVE-2023-34967)

  - A path disclosure vulnerability was found in Samba. As part of the Spotlight protocol, Samba discloses the     server-side absolute path of shares, files, and directories in the results for search queries. This flaw     allows a malicious client or an attacker with a targeted RPC request to view the information that is part     of the disclosed path. (CVE-2023-34968)

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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Debian DSA-5477-1 : samba - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179819

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Version 1.3 May 10, 2025, 1:49 PM Logic Changes (removed binary packages that have version mismatches) Plugin Feed: 202505101349
Version 1.2 Mar 29, 2024, 4:15 PM Detection Plugin Feed: 202403291615
Version 1.1 Oct 12, 2023, 4:22 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202310121622
Version 1.0 Aug 15, 2023, 7:57 AM New Plugin Feed: 202308150757