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RHEL 7 : samba (RHSA-2022:0664)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158333

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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-2022:0664 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: Out-of-bounds heap read/write vulnerability in VFS module vfs_fruit allows code execution (CVE-2021-44142)

 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.

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-2022:0664.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?952ac54d

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0664

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2046146

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 158333

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-0664.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/24/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-44142

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-krb5-printing, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_aus:7.7, 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-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-python-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-pidl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-dc-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-test-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-winbind-krb5-locator, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libwbclient-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_e4s:7.7, 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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-dc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-common-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:samba-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libsmbclient-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_tus:7.7

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: 2/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-44142

CWE: 787

IAVA: 2022-A-0054-S

RHSA: 2022:0664