openSUSE 16 Security Update : samba (openSUSE-SU-2026:20905-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 320420

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20905-1 advisory.

This update for samba fixes the following issues

Security issues:

- CVE-2026-1933: Missing access check on reparse point operations (bsc#1261188).
- CVE-2026-2340: vfs_worm does not block directory modification (bsc#1261158).
- CVE-2026-3012: group policy certificate enrollment uses http: // without validation (bsc#1261159).
- CVE-2026-3238: unauthenticated udp packet crashes AD DC nbt server (bsc#1261160).
- CVE-2026-4408: Remote Code Execution in SAMR (bsc#1261163).
- CVE-2026-4480: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (bsc#1261161).

Changes for samba:

- network:samba:STABLE/samba: use-kerberos=desired broken / Dolphin requires login for Samba shares (bsc#1255755).
- Samba service start times out (SElinux relabel takes too long) (bsc#1259050).
- samba-ad-dc-libs packages is missing a DLZ plugin for bind 9.20 (bsc#1249058).
- VFS_Snapper does not show previous file versions in subdirectories. (bsc#1259667).
- Updated to 4.22.9

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

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 affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 320420

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20905-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/11/2026

Updated: 6/11/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-4480

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ctdb-pcp-pmda, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-ad-dc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libldb-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-client-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-ldb-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-python3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-client, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libldb2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-dsdb-modules, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ldb-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-libs-python3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-dcerpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-gpupdate, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-ceph, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:python3-ldb, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-tool, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-winbind-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-ad-dc-libs

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-1933, CVE-2026-2340, CVE-2026-3012, CVE-2026-3238, CVE-2026-4408, CVE-2026-4480

IAVA: 2026-A-0510

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