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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Samba vulnerability (USN-3348-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 101262

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3348-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled dangling symlinks. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to hang, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-9461)

 In addition, this update fixes a regression introduced by USN-3267-1 that caused Samba to incorrectly handle non-wide symlinks to directories.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3348-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 101262

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3348-1.nasl

Version: 3.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2017

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-9461

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-vfs-modules, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-samba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-winbind, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libparse-pidl-perl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbsharemodes0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-common-bin, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:winbind, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-dsdb-modules, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpam-smbpass, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:registry-tools, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbsharemodes-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:smbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libnss-winbind, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsmbclient-dev

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9461

USN: 3348-1