The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5542-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Samba did not handle MaxQueryDuration when being used in AD DC configurations,     contrary to expectations. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3670)

    Luke Howard discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain restrictions associated with changing     passwords. A remote attacker being requested to change passwords could possibly use this issue to escalate     privileges. (CVE-2022-2031)

    Luca Moro discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain SMB1 communications. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive memory contents. (CVE-2022-32742)

    Joseph Sutton discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain password change requests. A remote     attacker could use this issue to change passwords of other users, resulting in privilege escalation.
    (CVE-2022-32744)

    Joseph Sutton discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain LDAP add or modify requests. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
    (CVE-2022-32745)

    Joseph Sutton and Andrew Bartlett discovered that Samba incorrectly handled certain LDAP add or modify     requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial     of service. (CVE-2022-32746)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Samba vulnerabilities (USN-5542-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 163679

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Version 1.7 Aug 28, 2024, 11:02 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408282302
Version 1.6 Jul 11, 2023, 1:48 AM Detection Plugin Feed: 202307110148
Version 1.5 Jan 18, 2023, 9:01 AM Logic Changes (Added support for s390x) Plugin Feed: 202301180901
Version 1.4 Dec 8, 2022, 4:04 PM CVSSv2 severity (based on CVE-2022-32745, severity increased from "Medium" to "High") CVSSv2 score source (changed from "CVE-2022-32746" to "CVE-2022-32745") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from "6.4" to "9.4") Plugin Feed: 202212081604
Version 1.3 Nov 1, 2022, 3:25 PM IAVM reference Plugin Feed: 202211011525