RHEL 6 : samba (RHSA-2018:1860)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 110601

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for samba.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1860 advisory.

- samba: NULL pointer dereference in printer server process (CVE-2018-1050)

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 RHEL samba package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:1860.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?324caeb5

http://www.nessus.org/u?930329e4

http://www.nessus.org/u?c064174a

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1860

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1413484

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1431000

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1467395

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1513877

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1519884

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536053

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1538771

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 110601

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1860.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/19/2018

Updated: 4/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-domainjoin-gui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-glusterfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-swat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-krb5-locator, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1050

CWE: 476

RHSA: 2018:1860