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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : samba, talloc, tevent (SUSE-SU-2018:0754-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 108529

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Synopsis

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

Description

Samba was updated to version 4.6.13 to fix several bugs. (bsc#1084191) Security issue fixed :

 - CVE-2018-1050: DOS vulnerability when SPOOLSS is run externally (bsc#1081741). The library talloc was updated to version 2.1.10 :

 - build, documentation and python3 improvements The library tevent was updated to version 0.9.34 (bsc#1069666);

 - Remove unused select backend

 - Fix a race condition in tevent_threaded_schedule_immediate(); (bso#13130);

 - make tevent_req_print() more robust against crashes

 - Fix mutex locking in tevent_threaded_context_destructor().

 - Re-init threading in tevent_re_initialise().

 - Include the finish location in tevent_req_default_print().

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 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-507=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-507=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-HA-12-SP3-2018-507=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-507=1

SUSE Enterprise Storage 5:zypper in -t patch SUSE-Storage-5-2018-507=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069666

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081741

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084191

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1050/

http://www.nessus.org/u?a6c84065

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 108529

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0754-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/22/2018

Updated: 12/19/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1050

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtevent-util0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-credentials0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtevent-util0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnetapi0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc-binding0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-errors0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-errors0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc-binding0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-krb5pac0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtalloc2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbclient0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-standard0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-util0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-standard0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtalloc2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-hostconfig0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwbclient0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-winbind-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamdb0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtevent0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbldap0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-talloc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbldap0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamdb0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbconf0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-krb5pac0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnetapi0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-passdb0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-passdb0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libtevent0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-nbt0-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:python-talloc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-util0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-nbt0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tevent-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-hostconfig0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbconf0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:talloc-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-credentials0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1050