Debian dsa-5647 : ctdb - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 192522

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5647 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 heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in Samba within the GSSAPI unwrap_des() and unwrap_des3() routines of Heimdal. The DES and Triple-DES decryption routines in the Heimdal GSSAPI library allow a length-limited write buffer overflow on malloc() allocated memory when presented with a maliciously small packet. This flaw allows a remote user to send specially crafted malicious data to the application, possibly resulting in a denial of service (DoS) attack. (CVE-2022-3437)

- 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)

- A vulnerability was discovered in Samba, where the flaw allows SMB clients to truncate files, even with read-only permissions when the Samba VFS module acl_xattr is configured with acl_xattr:ignore system acls = yes. The SMB protocol allows opening files when the client requests read-only access but then implicitly truncates the opened file to 0 bytes if the client specifies a separate OVERWRITE create disposition request. The issue arises in configurations that bypass kernel file system permissions checks, relying solely on Samba's permissions. (CVE-2023-4091)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the ctdb packages.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/samba

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-2127

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-3437

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-34966

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-34967

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-34968

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-4091

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/samba

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 192522

File Name: debian_DSA-5647.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/24/2024

Updated: 3/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-4091

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss-winbind, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-winbind, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python3-samba, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:registry-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-dsdb-modules, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-vfs-modules, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:smbclient, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:winbind, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2127, CVE-2022-3437, CVE-2023-34966, CVE-2023-34967, CVE-2023-34968, CVE-2023-4091

IAVA: 2022-A-0447-S, 2023-A-0376-S, 2023-A-0535