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RHEL 8 : samba (RHSA-2022:1756)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 160966
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:1756 advisory.Red Hat Gluster Storage is a software only scale-out storage solution that provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage. It unifies data storage and infrastructure, increases performance, and improves availability and manageability to meet enterprise-level storage challenges.
Security Fix(es):
* samba: Symlink race error can allow metadata read and modify outside of the exported share (CVE-2021-20316)
* samba: Information leak via symlinks of existance of files or directories outside of the exported share (CVE-2021-44141)
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.
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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?f36fb0a8
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1756
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2009673
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 160966
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-1756.nasl
Version: 1.10
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 5/10/2022
Updated: 11/7/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.2
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Low
Base Score: 3.5
Temporal Score: 2.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-44141
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
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-20316
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, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, 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, 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: 5/10/2022
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/31/2022
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2021-20316, CVE-2021-44141