openSUSE Security Update : samba (samba-174)

low Nessus Plugin ID 40126

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This is an update to version 3.2.3 of Samba.

This release includes several bugfixes and performance enhancements for Samba and its components. It is recommended for every user to update to this version.

Among several other bugs the following list shows some detail :

- Fix a race condition in winbind leading to a crash (bnc#406623).

- Fix emptying the printing queue; (bnc#411493).

- Fix the webinface SWAT; (bnc#391969).

- Fixed a file permission problem. (CVE-2008-3789) bnc#420634

Solution

Update the affected samba packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=391969

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406623

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=411493

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=412589

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=420634

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 40126

File Name: suse_11_0_samba-080828.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:cifs-mount, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ldapsmb, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libnetapi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libnetapi0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbclient0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbsharemodes-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libsmbsharemodes0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtalloc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtalloc1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtalloc1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtdb-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtdb1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtdb1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libwbclient0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-client-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-krb-printing, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:samba-winbind-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/28/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3789

CWE: 264