The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:2074 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.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: samba (4.15.5). (BZ#2013596)

    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.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Release Notes     linked from 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 these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 : samba (RHSA-2022:2074)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 161020

Version 1.9

Version 1.8

Version 1.7

Version 1.6

Version 1.9 Nov 7, 2024, 5:29 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411071729
Version 1.8 Apr 28, 2024, 2:25 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202404281425
Version 1.7 Jan 23, 2023, 9:47 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301232147
Version 1.6 Nov 1, 2022, 3:25 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202211011525