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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : samba (SUSE-SU-2021:1445-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 149135
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for samba fixes the following issues :CVE-2021-20254: Fixed a buffer overrun in sids_to_unixids() (bsc#1184677).
Avoid free'ing our own pointer in memcache when memcache_trim attempts to reduce cache size (bsc#1179156).
Adjust smbcacls '--propagate-inheritance' feature to align with upstream (bsc#1178469).
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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 15 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES_SAP-15-2021-1445=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15-LTSS :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-SLES-15-2021-1445=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-LTSS :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2021-1445=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15-ESPOS :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-2021-1445=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HA-15-2021-1445=1
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178469
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179156
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184677
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 149135
File Name: suse_SU-2021-1445-1.nasl
Version: 1.7
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 4/30/2021
Updated: 1/26/2022
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.2
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.9
Temporal Score: 3.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20254
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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:libdcerpc-samr-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbldap2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-policy0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-credentials0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbldap2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-passdb-devel, 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:libtevent-util-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc-binding0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbldap-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-core-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc-samr0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-errors0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-errors0-debuginfo, 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:libndr-nbt-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbclient0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-krb5pac-devel, 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:libsamba-hostconfig0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-errors-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwbclient0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-winbind-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-credentials-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamdb0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-util-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-client, 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:libsamba-hostconfig-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, 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:libsamdb-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-nbt0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libnetapi-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-policy-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-util0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-nbt0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libndr-standard-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-hostconfig0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbconf0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwbclient-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsmbconf-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libsamba-credentials0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:samba-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libdcerpc-samr0-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: 4/29/2021
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/5/2021
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-20254
IAVA: 2021-A-0208-S