The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1967 advisory.

    Samba is an open-source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol and the related Common     Internet File System (CIFS) protocol, which allow PC-compatible machines to share files, printers, and     various information.

    Security Fix(es):

    * samba: save registry file outside share as unprivileged user (CVE-2019-3880)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS the score and other related     information refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Bug Fix(es):

    * The samba and CTDB packages have been upgraded to upstream version 4.9.8, which provide a number of bug     fixes and enhancements over the previous release, including numerous changes to the CTDB configuration.
    See the Solution section for a link to the Knowledge Base article to aid in migration. (BZ#1708284)

    Users of Samba with Red Hat Gluster Storage are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

Analytics

RHEL 6 : samba (RHSA-2019:1967)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 127639

Version 1.9

Version 1.8

Version 1.7

Version 1.9 Nov 7, 2024, 2:42 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411070242
Version 1.8 Jun 3, 2024, 4:41 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202406031641
Version 1.7 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2019-3880") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425