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Debian DLA-2668-1 : samba security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 150107

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Samba, SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for Unix

CVE-2019-10218

A flaw was found in the samba client, where a malicious server can supply a pathname to the client with separators. This could allow the client to access files and folders outside of the SMB network pathnames. An attacker could use this vulnerability to create files outside of the current working directory using the privileges of the client user.

CVE-2019-14833

A flaw was found in Samba, in the way it handles a user password change or a new password for a samba user. The Samba Active Directory Domain Controller can be configured to use a custom script to check for password complexity. This configuration can fail to verify password complexity when non-ASCII characters are used in the password, which could lead to weak passwords being set for samba users, making it vulnerable to dictionary attacks.

CVE-2019-14847

A flaw was found in samba where an attacker can crash AD DC LDAP server via dirsync resulting in denial of service. Privilege escalation is not possible with this issue.

CVE-2019-14861

Samba have an issue, where the (poorly named) dnsserver RPC pipe provides administrative facilities to modify DNS records and zones.
Samba, when acting as an AD DC, stores DNS records in LDAP. In AD, the default permissions on the DNS partition allow creation of new records by authenticated users. This is used for example to allow machines to self-register in DNS. If a DNS record was created that case-insensitively matched the name of the zone, the ldb_qsort() and dns_name_compare() routines could be confused into reading memory prior to the list of DNS entries when responding to DnssrvEnumRecords() or DnssrvEnumRecords2() and so following invalid memory as a pointer.

CVE-2019-14870

Samba have an issue, where the S4U (MS-SFU) Kerberos delegation model includes a feature allowing for a subset of clients to be opted out of constrained delegation in any way, either S4U2Self or regular Kerberos authentication, by forcing all tickets for these clients to be non-forwardable. In AD this is implemented by a user attribute delegation_not_allowed (aka not-delegated), which translates to disallow-forwardable. However the Samba AD DC does not do that for S4U2Self and does set the forwardable flag even if the impersonated client has the not-delegated flag set.

CVE-2019-14902

There is an issue in samba, where the removal of the right to create or modify a subtree would not automatically be taken away on all domain controllers.

CVE-2019-14907

samba have an issue where if it is set with 'log level = 3' (or above) then the string obtained from the client, after a failed character conversion, is printed. Such strings can be provided during the NTLMSSP authentication exchange. In the Samba AD DC in particular, this may cause a long-lived process(such as the RPC server) to terminate. (In the file server case, the most likely target, smbd, operates as process-per-client and so a crash there is harmless).

CVE-2021-20254

A flaw was found in samba. The Samba smbd file server must map Windows group identities (SIDs) into unix group ids (gids). The code that performs this had a flaw that could allow it to read data beyond the end of the array in the case where a negative cache entry had been added to the mapping cache. This could cause the calling code to return those values into the process token that stores the group membership for a user. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your samba packages.

For the detailed security status of samba please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/samba

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/05/msg00023.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/samba

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/samba

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 150107

File Name: debian_DLA-2668.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/1/2021

Updated: 1/16/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14870

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20254

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpam-winbind, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libparse-pidl-perl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:python-samba, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-dsdb-modules, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ctdb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:smbclient, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:winbind, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-libs, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:registry-tools, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-vfs-modules, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-testsuite, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libwbclient0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libsmbclient-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libnss-winbind, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:samba-common

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/6/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10218, CVE-2019-14833, CVE-2019-14847, CVE-2019-14861, CVE-2019-14870, CVE-2019-14902, CVE-2019-14907, CVE-2021-20254