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RHEL 8 : samba (RHSA-2024:0423)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 189578

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:0423 advisory.

 - samba: GnuTLS gnutls_rnd() can fail and give predictable random values (CVE-2022-1615)

 - samba: out-of-bounds read in winbind AUTH_CRAP (CVE-2022-2127)

 - samba: infinite loop in mdssvc RPC service for spotlight (CVE-2023-34966)

 - samba: type confusion in mdssvc RPC service for spotlight (CVE-2023-34967)

 - samba: spotlight server-side share path disclosure (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.

Solution

Update the RHEL samba package based on the guidance in RHSA-2024:0423.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3a61c576

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2122649

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222791

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222793

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222794

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222795

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0423

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 189578

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0423.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/25/2024

Updated: 4/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-34968

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1615

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwbclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-samba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-samba-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-client-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-krb5-printing, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-pidl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-test-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-vfs-iouring, 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:samba-winbind-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winexe

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: 1/25/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-1615, CVE-2022-2127, CVE-2023-34966, CVE-2023-34967, CVE-2023-34968

CWE: 125, 330, 835, 843

IAVA: 2023-A-0376-S

RHSA: 2024:0423