RHEL 2.1 : samba (RHSA-2003:138)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 12387

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated Samba packages that fix a security vulnerability are now available.

Samba is a suite of utilities which provides file and printer sharing services to SMB/CIFS clients.

A security vulnerability has been found in versions of Samba up to and including 2.2.8. An anonymous user could exploit the vulnerability to gain root access on the target machine. Note that this is a different vulnerability than the one fixed by RHSA-2003:096.

An exploit for this vulnerability is publicly available.

All users of Samba are advised to update to the packages listed in this erratum, which contain a backported patch correcting this vulnerability.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 12387

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2003-138.nasl

Version: 1.32

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/6/2004

Updated: 1/14/2021

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: 8.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-swat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2003

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2003

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Metasploit (Samba trans2open Overflow (Solaris SPARC))

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2003-0196, CVE-2003-0201

RHSA: 2003:138

Detections

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