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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : samba (SUSE-SU-2017:1391-1) (SambaCry)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 100404

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for samba fixes the following issue :

 - An unprivileged user with access to the samba server could cause smbd to load a specially crafted shared library, which then had the ability to execute arbitrary code on the server as 'root'. [CVE-2017-7494, bso#12780, bsc#1038231]

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-samba-13127=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-samba-13127=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3-LTSS:zypper in -t patch slessp3-samba-13127=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch sleposp3-samba-13127=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-samba-13127=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3:zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-samba-13127=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1038231

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7494/

http://www.nessus.org/u?bf1cbe1a

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 100404

File Name: suse_SU-2017-1391-1.nasl

Version: 3.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/25/2017

Updated: 3/30/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-krb-printing, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtevent0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtdb1, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ldapsmb, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtalloc2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwbclient0, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libldb1

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: 5/24/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/30/2017

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 4/20/2023

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Metasploit (Samba is_known_pipename() Arbitrary Module Load)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7494