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RHEL 7 : samba (RHSA-2020:3118)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 138879

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3118 advisory.

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

 Security Fix(es):

 * samba: NULL pointer de-reference and use-after-free in Samba AD DC LDAP Server with ASQ, VLV and paged_results (CVE-2020-10730)

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

 All 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.

Solution

Update the RHEL samba package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:3118.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?903c7876

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3118

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1849489

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 138879

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-3118.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/23/2020

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10730

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-krb5-printing, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-modules, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-client-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-vfs-glusterfs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-clients, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-pidl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-krb5-locator, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwbclient, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-samba

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10730

CWE: 416

IAVA: 2020-A-0288-S

RHSA: 2020:3118