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MiracleLinux 4 : samba4-4.2.10-7.AXS4 (AXSA:2016-577:04)

high Nessus Plugin ID 289199

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2016-577:04 advisory.

 Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
 Security issues fixed with this release:
 CVE-2016-2119 libcli/smb/smbXcli_base.c in Samba 4.x before 4.2.14, 4.3.x before 4.3.11, and 4.4.x before 4.4.5 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass a client-signing protection mechanism, and consequently spoof SMB2 and SMB3 servers, via the (1) SMB2_SESSION_FLAG_IS_GUEST or (2) SMB2_SESSION_FLAG_IS_NULL flag.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/7009

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 289199

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2016-577.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-2119

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-winbind-krb5-locator, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-winbind-clients, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-common, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-pidl, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-test, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-client, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-dc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-dc-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-winbind, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-python, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:samba4-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-2119